TITLE: No Secret Tao
SUBTITLE: Poetry
AUTHOR: Peter Banks
DATE: 2025-03-14
URL: https://peterbanks.org/essays/no-secret-tao
SOURCE: https://peteribanks.substack.com/p/no-secret-tao

Living is a struggle against an eternal plague.It eats at man from deep within.A quest for clarity on living, loving, dying without sin.But all who struggle know the truth—they wear it on their skin.There is no book of wisdom, no secret Tao;No sacred cow, no holy shrine—When Death comes seeking, we all must bow.With sins so plentiful, we fall.Yet we know a deeper truth:

Life, whatever else it is, is Now.
