FAITH





Faith the foundation;
The foundation of my house;
diligence the wall.

Meditation makes huge bricks.
Wisdom hews the cornerstone;

a castle four square
lasting as eternal Truth.
But your house is false;

deluded, demon prisons.
I, desert, abandon them.

The Milarepa poem in the form of a Tanka chain (haiku connected by seven syllable couplet). The opening haiku sets the theme to which the variations are linked by the chain.