MONKEY BUSINESS

Monkey mind performs perfidious tricks,
Watch it trapeze in its jungle of illusion,
Tangled tree tops of passionate delusion,
Honeyed hills of craving,lust for kicks,
It picks and licks pleasure-plums and plays antics
In confusion, falling drunk. In profusion,
It emits ideas, an endless effusion.
So silence it with a punishment of sticks.

But I must accept 'myself', this treasured gift
Of life. Tie me stoutly by a firm rope
Of Devotion, then I'll steady, and not lift
My heart in sham elation, but wait in hope;
Clear headed and sage, I'll be able to cope.
The True from the False I'll be able to sift.