"So rounding the corner of the world he disappeared"

Etude: Thirteen by Thirteen

thirteen lines of thirteen syllables

He turned out like his father as his mother had feared
Made the same mistake and thought it best to go to sea
Out of sight and out of mind seemed a good place to be
So rounding the corner of the world he disappeared
But once around the corner he saw it was in vain
To go since what goes around just comes around again

No matter how far we flee we can never be free
Of the wheel of the real of the turning of the pain
Of the burning of the learning of the suffering
Of rounding the corner of the world to disappear
To go all the way around to be found right back here
Where we started and departed from once long ago

Yet until we go around the wheel how can we know?

+Steven Curtis Lance



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