Note: Preta (Sanskrit: प्रेत, Standard Tibetan: ཡི་དྭགས་ yi dags), also known as hungry ghost, is the Sanskrit name for a type of supernatural being described in Hinduism, Buddhism, Taoism, and Chinese folk religion as undergoing sufferinggreater than that of humans, particularly an extreme level of hunger and thirst.
Pretas are invisible to the human eye, but some believe they can be discerned by humans in certain mental states. They are described as human-like, but with sunken, mummified skin, narrow limbs, enormously distended bellies and long, thin necks. This appearance is a metaphor for their mental situation: they have enormous appetites, signified by their gigantic bellies, but a very limited ability to satisfy those appetites, symbolized by their slender necks.
The Preta
Wished I believed in a Heaven or Hell,
Wished I believed in a God or a Devil,
Wished I believed in you or me,
Wished I believed in something,
Besides this Nothing.
Wished I believed there were still someone in here,
Wished I believed that I wasn’t a walking corpse,
Wished I believed in my own resurrection,
Wished I believed in redeeming my crucifixion,
But there’s only Stigmata.
Wished I believed, but I never did
Now my heart beats within my carnal grave.
You see here a body, but not a man.
Just a starving soul, with a pin-hole mouth.
Paying for past-life sins, I never lived.
Suffering the wounds, the dead have left for me.
Starving with a hunger, that’s now my own
I kill myself, only to be born again,
Again, and again…
Poetry Of Tantrik Nihilist 