The body had struggled for a whole night <br />Calling for a tranquil, unquestioning acceptance <br />A typhoon in the intestines caused the mind to swirl <br />In a smelly rejection across the car seat <br />In the acceptance lay the complementarity of rejection <br />Then the rain went musical on the misty windshield <br />Beauty appeared, in wistful rain, across time <br />As though it were life briefly rejecting death <br />Buddha sat there smiling in Time’s burnt earth <br />There was no acceptance or rejection, only beauty.<br /><br />Jagannath rao Adukuri<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/acceptance-40/