A Poem Composed by Tsem Tulku Rinpoche to His Guru
Sadness and loneliness are my forced friends, Living in lands forever foreign as I have no home...
Sounds of my Guru's damaru evokes a time long gone, As it plays in my head all day long...
My Guru's memory I projected onto my daily life, Keeps me going in a place I am forced to call home...
Tragic am I living in a time that has passed, A memory that I must wake from although I resist...
Alone with memories My work and burdens hasn't any end, Yet have to trudge on, onto where? Is there any respite from my hopes and optimism? Or is it better to accept reality which is cynicism?
Alone with memories Alone with memories
I long for my youth not for the false hopes it promised, But to hear the sound of my Glorious Guru
Playing his divine music on his damaru again... To be warmed by his wisdom, blessed by his strength...
Alone with memories My work and burdens hasn't any end, Yet have to trudge on, onto where? Is there any respite from my hopes and optimism? Or is it better to accept reality which is cynicism?
Alone with memories Alone with memories
And to feel hope again... A hope that hangs in there, But often slips away... again...
Gavin Gooi is the son of His Eminence Tsem Tulku Rinpoche's long-time students Patsy Gooi and Gooi Soon Lee. An aspiring musician and composer, Gavin was inspired to put His Eminence's poem to music.
Words written by His Eminence Tsem Tulku Rinpoche
Composition and arrangement by Gavin Gooi
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