Giving Up Everything

Giving up everything
My hungry ghost of hopefulness
Giving up everything
Not haunted by wanting this
Giving up everything
The fortune I was saving
Giving up everything
I mercy-killed my craving

Giving up everything
Opened up my eyes for this
Giving up everything
See the warm and innocent emptiness
Gave what I want for how it is
The stone inside, the bitterness
The sweetness at the core of this

Giving up everything
The compass and the map I was reading
Giving up everything
My persistence leading (?)
The compass and the map I was reading
The hints and the lies I was weaving (?)
Finally leaving behind

Giving up everything
The big to-do, the hullabaloo
Tug of war for some twisted truth
For the everlasting ache of it
No longer sweet
No train to it
No gain, no cred, no keeper
No guru, master, teacher

I see the slow receding faces
Dissolve to black, no traces