Austere Deliverance

From on high

Evolved fame and riches

To normalcy of a spartan lifestyle

How comforting to desire

Only one’s needs

Free from inordinate wants

Aspirations beyond who one

Truly is

To dream now

Is to project what one has

Utilizing all its apparent

As well as hidden values

Heretofore unknown

Walking the path of reality

Appreciating the gifts one has

Looking not to match another’s

Or covet that which is not appropriate

To have tamed the craving derelict

Of wild surroundings

Of safaris into one’s mind lust

Is to realize

The gift of love

Of compassion

Of kindness

As riches without price

Is to know the inner essence

Of what some humans call soul

Nature calls Karma

Other life forms call

Honest needs fulfilled