You are more than name and title
More than post
and seat of honour
Travel by your moral compass
On the sacred journey home
Good and evil- both are waiting
for the train, by His grace
Ticket comes as per your karma
On the platform of life
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I once knew a girl named Mary
She was just
like you and me
She had a great desire
To love and serve humanity
She searched and searched for the way
To break mummy’s heart and fly away
A tiny family, was not for her
Worldly lures she would not obey
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So Mary went ahead and followed call
Sought to learn the Dharma way of life
Went to training centre, sacrificing all
Aspiring for a life and conduct white as snow
The teacher brought her close under his wing
Reassuring her ‘come close’ her confidence to win
Then touched her, did not desist, did not renounce
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Shocked and cold Mary did not stay
She ran away I don’t know where
Much too hurt to try again
What happened to the teacher, is unknown
I don’t want to see a wall of stone
I don’t like the sound of dragging feet
I don’t want to do the spiritual bypass,
So I cry, I cry
For the sisters of Mary
by Avcobe
I have listened to your song now for the 10th or so time
I have cried for the 10th or so time listening
And only at the 10th or so time realised
This might not be the song of Mary we knew together and watched her grow?
This might be the song of Mary of many decades ago?
Who fled the centre of your tonight’s stage.
Never to come again.
The song for all the Marys who stayed and suffered in silence through decades.
And those who had left and had suffered in silence.
And those yet to come and to suffer.
In silence.
The grand design of the fairy like forest
As the backdrop of moral decay.
Not dealt with for almost a century halved.
It focuses my mind.
It breaks my heart.