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On a
journey away
from you to
a far away
place from you
I admire your
magpie-packing and
insistence to see
the unforeseen you
saved me from shabbiness
of appearance
and the fate forced me
to face the reality
in that scholarly assemblage
of Yu
where I travelled to be
better than
myself to be
face to face
with my self
stripped of abundance
I have been used to
where
you were
within me:
the tranquil face
of a Buddha
in Dazu
Yu: the local name of Chongqing
Dazu: Dazu County (160 km to the west of Chongqing) in Sichuan Province in China famous for carved stone figures relating mainly to Buddhism.
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