Consumed

A course that takes
Hours to prepare, with
Utmost love and care;
Attention to taste, health,
Elegance, flavor,
To be devoured in minutes.

Story of a struggle
That takes years
To experience with
Successes, failures,
Pain, passion, pleasure,
Written off in a few pages;
Read, heard, narrated in
Fewer moments.

When the mind lives
Through the phases,
It loses awareness that
Illusion withers
In impermanence.

True or false,
Right or wrong,
The curtain never falls;
Life goes on
Living, loving,
Winning, losing,
Filling, emptying,
Falling, failing,
Feeling, getting along.

An unending song,
Indomitable folklore,
Redone, retold,
Rewritten, reborn,
Absorbed in the course.