Ephemeral / 朝生暮死

Down falls the rain

And up rises the mist

Chill in breath

And be deprived of voice

Gusting wind

Shattering nests and hives

The play is on

With lives and deaths roaring past me

Oblivion floods

One who’s blind to time

I too feel the stars

I too feel the sun

I can touch the veins of land

Who cradles us as one

I wonder how to brace

The first twilight

And to

Engage the wind

On tree top and

To touch the sky

The night

Covers up

The ambitions they chase under the sun

And then soothes down

The predators the preys and the perils

And let my whispers be heard among the woods

Born in a rain

And flourish in shade

Seal the phrase

Into the spores we spray

From every

Root and trunk

Our voices echoing weak - yet strong

Ephemeral

But we are never wiped

Let us stride the land

Over the woods we span

We merge and grow with the nerves of the earth and sand

All hail the time

And all hail the death –

Him who releases us free from eternity

So memory may flow

Epochs fly through

And our watch shall never fail

From the lowly bed of dirt and dust

Regain what’s grabbed by the fate

And praise the sun