Paradise Found

How can we know what’s preferable

If we don’t try new things?

How can we know how selfless taste

If to selfish we cling?

For desires to shift one aught

We must find something better

To displace baser perspective

We break the finite fetter

Then into view we see that true

Happiness comes from giving

That self is more than ego

And that life is more than living

It may take time to shed the lie

Which suggests sacrifice

When giving feels like love of self

You’ve reached the paradise