This life is so real

What is it?
What is it?  
Alan Watts asked
We can't get at it

There is republican and democrat
Christian and Jew
Young and old
The mind creates categories
What is the category of all categories then?
It must be love

Love is the source
The source of all life

It's quite a thing to be a human being
In the 21st century
I follow the ancient way
Of the teacher
From time to time
One time to the next time
That's it?

Crazy I know
How the times change

I try to do what is right
To cultivate the loving compassion
Of Jesus and of the Bodhichitta

Nobody ever told me
About the emptiness of existence
About the longing I would feel
I hope to be loved

Trying, trying so hard
To be happy
Trying to do what is right

Nothing like a good hard try