Food, sleep, illness, pain, sorrow, joy –
How many marks are etched upon a human brow!
Life is bound by hunger,
Desire, longing, envy, pride – forever awake!
A confined body, yet yearning for freedom.
Questions seem futile!
Why all this careful arrangement of so much?
What a wonder this is! This heart is enchanted!
The spark of thought eternally seeks that eternal self.
Ah, life! What immense joy fills the cycle of existence!
Yet, at the day’s end, the self drifts lost and bewildered.
In the eyes’ gaze, hundreds of stars shine,
Yet not all cast their light for the beholder.
Will I ever find that star?
Or is this endless play merely a habit, without reason?
For many days, for manys years, the traveler walks –
Has the path ever shown her a boundary?
Life’s complexity, the mind’s subtle cunning –
How vividly colored is this mystery!
What color is a human?
A human will find no answer.
The mystery shall remain –
within this creation.