The treasures of the true world,
the harmony, the peace, the immortality,
can’t be taken back
into the false world

You can’t adorn yourself with them
to raise your status, can’t teach them
to those you peg as fools.
They are, in fact, as useless there
as sun sparkles, for paying off of debts

The treasures of the true world
must be enjoyed right where they are.
There’s no need to go back anyway —
why not stay
in the consciousness of omnipresent good?

©Wendy Mulhern
June 3, 2017