When It Is All Said and Done

Acharya Tadany
Morning Meditation
Vienna, 30 April 2026.

When it is all said and done,
What is left to whisper about?
When it is all acted and lied through,
What is left to manipulate?

Time reveals a strange brevity,
While illusions roam untethered.
Possibilities seem limitless,
Yet imagination exhausts itself so quickly.

When the curtain falls upon borrowed dreams,
And echoes of deceit dissolve into silence,
What remains but the weight of truth,
Patiently waiting in the shadows?

For in the end, the noise subsides,
The masks fall, the mirage dissolves,
And only the unspoken, the unfeigned,
Becomes the whisper worth remembering.

Acharya Tadany

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