Depressing Truths

The First Noble Truth  --by Steve Kowit

Poetry

77 Pages

footnotes/endnotes: No

Illustrations: No

Suitable for eReaders: Yes

The First Noble Truth:

all humanity suffers --

but we bring it on ourselves

and it is within ourselves

to choose to continue the

suffering, or to find enlightenment.

After the first six poems

of this book, I chose

to leave the suffering of

others for something more

enlightened and peaceful.

If the suffering of other

beings is what you long for,

if their suffering somehow

makes your suffering less,

by comparison, then by all

means, buy and read this book.

I did not finish this book, and doubt, seriously, that I ever will. The writing and style appeal to me, but the poems were just too darned depressing. The writing is clear, the style accessible, but....