Denizens of the world of desire With elevated mind, senses refined Pursue all that is rare or novel Believing them needful things For comfort, pleasure, and ease And striving to reach them Only find them transformed In the distance ahead And to possess one thing Means to relinquish others To find scarcity in affluence For scarcity is discontinuity perceived In a dynamic and continuous world An illusion of absence created By what is always present: Love, respect, belonging, happiness