The monk stood beside a wheelbarrow, weeping.
God of Buddha nowhere to be seen -
these tears were fully human,
bitter, broken,
falling onto the wheelbarrow's rusty side.
They gathered at its bottom,
where the metal drank them in to make more rust.
You cannot know what you do in this life, what you have done.
I saw the weeping monk
and knew I also had a place on this hard earth.
- Jane Hirshfield
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