The Burden Robe - K Rino

There was a man who woke up one day with his heart absent of love

So he went to search for the answer of why that really was

All attempts to learn on his own would eventually fail him

Asked his mother and his father but neither one would ever tell him

He was not young, he was not old, he had been here for a while

And trouble had built up inside of him since he was a child

He met a guy who then told him, even though he didn’t know him

And informed him of an old man with the understanding to show him

His inner demons was starting to eat right through him and defeat him

So he quickly made preparations to locate him and meet him

He was already questioning whether or not he would believe him

So he just thought to himself I guess I’ll find out when I see him

So much trouble on my shoulders now, every day a new weight

I should’ve been a better man but now I think is too late

I have to pull my mind back from the darkness to a true place of light,

before this burden overtakes me

He showed up a the man’s home, hoping he wasn’t a faker

He walked up to the door and checked the address on the paper

He was kind of apprehensive because they told him to come alone

And as he lifted his hands to knock the door just opened up on its own

And the old man appeared and said, «How may I assist you?»

He said I heard that you can lift my burdens.

He said, «It's true»

He called him closer grabbed him by the shoulder, gripped it tight

And in his mind he now could vision every aspect of his life

Then he stepped into the light, the garment he wore was exposed

It was a robe that looked as though it was five centuries old

He said, «If you put this on then your children will fall below you»

He said 'I don’t have any children' He said, 'Yes you do I’ll show you'

The old man said this robe I’m wearing, is no regular robe

It exposes past emotions and reasons never been told

When you were five years old you were Parsimonious indeed

And that Selfish mind married Lust and gave birth to Greed

Then Greed grew up to gain much, but was a lonely one

Till he met Hate who gave birth to Pain their only son

And Pain consummated with Envy from night time till the morn

And two more children Disloyalty and then Murder were born

And you fathered them all and let each of these spirits drown you

And Love, Trust and Compassion were not allowed to be around you

So now you stand before me crying imploring for help

Asking me to lift the sadness you inflicted on yourself

Then the old man took the robe off and his heart began to soften

The stress erased from his face and his grey began to darken

Then he placed it on the man’s back and the man began to lose it

It was uncomfortable, heavy and impossible to remove it

The old man said I wore this for fifty years, it wasn’t easy

But you coming to see me took it off my back and freed me

So to wipe out the regret and hurt you feel there’s only one way

You’ll have to wear this robe till someone like you finds you one day

There’s a lesson in this, for all of us

The things we do stay with us for years

Till we cleanse them from our internal self

In other words get them demons out your heart man