Oh to live an unfettered life
Free of all mans worldly drives
If we can step off the revolving treadmill
We will liberate ourselves and change lives

We may live as a saint or a sinner
As we chose how to play out this game
We continue to believe in a winner
Till we go right beyond face and name

And we dance round and round with dear Mara
In a mad crazy external spin
And all beings just run on the spot
'Till they learn that they never can win

Buddha said it was by our desires
That we are trapped between pleasure and pain
Grace can carry us through all of life's fires
To a free land that's hard to explain

We are part of an intricate web
Seemingly caught in an eternal bind
Until we retrace the invisible thread
Behold light it's the source that we find