I Need New Eyes

[Verse 1]
I spent decades going on about how nothing doesn't change
Slow tattooing the word "impermanence" bold across my face
I lived examples, I found words to say it yet another way:
Death and birth and changing weather
And romance blown away

[Verse 2]
I just wanted to say something true
And complicate my youth
But now a new idea complicates my old age:
It's that nothing arises in the first place
All this impermanence is just another thing my mind made
I was never here, and nothing goes away

[Verse 3]
In mystical ignorance, I've prioritized joy
I've chosen to see this and not that
I laid in the tall grass
I just watched the breaths fall and rise while this life goes by

[Verse 4]
And the constant catastrophes pound on the wall
And who isn't my neighbor on this flaming globe?

[Outro]
Now I'm staring at a boulder trying to tell myself
"This didn't arise"
I need new eyes