What's Coming Is Going

For Buddha it was a sort
Of suicide: "in his wise
Discretion, our spiritual
Leader passed away," goes one
Translation into English,
A nonexistent language
In the time of decision.

Despite renunciations
Of the ordinary world,
The godlike hero prophets,
Buddha, Jesus, Mohammed,
Et alia, are always
Credited as deciders
Because we want them both ways.