The Hungry Ghost

Hamster wheel of life
Round and round we go
What will make us happy
We don’t know

Money, fame, jewels, or trips
insatiable cravings and desires
a need to build empires

Stalked by the hungry ghost
always needing more
Work, manipulate, acquire
 we have to fill all our desires

Wishing, praying,
Shopping, needing
Amazon on direct dial
A new dress, that new style

All to feed the hungry ghost
that thinks it needs more
Can’t appreciate the moment
It’s wondering what do I need at the store

Filling up on too much food, clothes or sex
Sending and receiving nonstop texts
Trying to fill that giant hole anyway it can
It’s  haunting wail,  heard throughout the land

Fill me up it rattles and rants
Our ears are filled with it’s loud chants
Drags its chains of wounded pasts
When was this spell cast?
of endless neediness
and excessive greediness

Rose colored glasses
worn by the masses
that think things or a person will make them whole
The hungry ghost is never full,
it’s lost touch with it’s soul

The answer is to look within
to find the divine source
Then we will be free of our unwanted host
the howling moaning hungry ghost