What Makes The Dalai Lama Lovable?

His posture From so many years Holding his robe with one hand Is odd. His gait Also. One's own body Aches Witnessing The sloping Shoulders & Angled Neck; One hopes He Attends Yoga class Or does Yoga On his own As part Of prayer. He smiles As he bows To Everything: Accepting The heavy Burdens Of This earth; It's Toxic Evils & Prolific Insults. Even so, He sleeps Through The night Like a child Because Thank goodness That is something Else Daylong Meditation Assures. You could cry Yourself to sleep On his behalf & He Has done that Too. Life Has been A great Endless Tearing away For Him. From Mother, Father, Siblings, Country, Home. And yet Clearly His mother Loved him; His brother & sister Too: Even his Not so constant father, Who When Tenzin was A boy Shared With him Delicious Scraps Of Succulent Pork. He laughs Telling this Story Over half a century Later & To who knows How many Puzzled Vegetarians: About The way he sat Behind His father's chair Like a dog, Relishing Each juicy Greasy Bite. Whenever I see The Dalai Lama My first impulse Is to laugh I am so happy To Lay eyes On One So effortlessly Beautiful. That balding head That holds A shine; Those wire framed Glasses That might Have come From Anywhere. His look of having given All he has. He is my teacher; Just staying alive. Other teachers I have had Resemble him In some way; They too Were & Are Smart And Humble; Fascinated By Science & things like Time, Eternity, Cause & Effect; The Evolution Of the Soul. A soul That Might Or might not Exist. They too See all of us -Banker, murderer, gardener, thief - When they look Out across The world: But that is not all They see. They see our suffering; Our striving To find The right path; The one with heart We may only Have heard About. The Dalai Lama is Cool A modern word For "Divine" Because he wants Only Our collective Health & Happiness. That's it! What makes Him Lovable Is His holiness.