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Alone with Memories

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Channel: Tsem Rinpoche · 2010 · Music

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Then one of my student's son, Gavin, surprised me by arranging the music, playing the piano and making a beautiful song from the poem!

I was like wow...the kid's got talent...Some of the words he re-arranged for the sake of the song from my original poem. But it evokes my feeling for my Guru for sure. When I listen to this, I think of Zong Rinpoche...

Alone With Memories

(my actual poem)

Sadness and loneliness
are my forced friends,
Living in lands forever foreign
as I have no home.....

Sounds of my guru's damaru
evokes a time long gone,
As it plays in my head
all day long...

My guru's memory I projected
onto my daily life,
Keeps me going in a place I am
forced to call home...

Tragic am I living in a
time that has passed,
A memory that I must wake from
although I resist...

My work and burdens hasn't any end,
Yet have to trudge on, onto where?
Is there any respite from my hopes and optimism?
Or is it better to accept reality which is cynicism?

I long for my youth not for the
false hopes it promised,
But to hear the sound of my
Glorious Guru playing his divine music
on his damaru again... To be warmed by his wisdom,
blessed by his strength.....

And to feel hope again...
A hope that hangs in there,
But often slips away...again...

Written by Tsem Tulku

http://blog.tsemtulku.com/tsem-tulku-rinpoche/2010/04/a-poem-to-my-teacher.html

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