Suffering is the Nature of Samsara

I woke up on a mountain I had walked around the world

My family would have been so proud

I never had that kind of courage when I was a girl

Of all the children it was me who always cried out loud.

I cried out loud when a boy in my class

poisoned my best friend.

He put her body in a box on the grass

I had so much to tell her but I never saw her again.

I'm trying to be true to what I believe in.

I grew up on the east coast of a place they call The West

I had a set of rules to go by

Followed them so faithfully I needed me a rest

So I took up with the guru but I didn't really know why.

Guru said