Equanimity: Trading Frustration for Insight

I am so frustrated,
So very frustrated
But
What of the Buddha?

Even the Buddha
For all his powers
Could not stop
People from being people;

He could not stop
Reality from being reality,
Nor stop anyone
From falling into darkness,

All he could do was
Show people a possible way,
A way to get out
But he could not free anybody,

How frustrating,
How frustrating!
How relevant
To my situation,

I want to help people
But the obstacles
Seem so insurmountable
At times,

Greed gets in the way
Ignorance gets in the way
Ill will gets in the way
And all the consequences of these get in the way,

How like
The Buddha’s predicament,
For even with all he had going for him,
Even he could not change this.