Life and death

(3558) Asa ar jaoya caoya ar paoya, ei niye shudhu bence thaka

Coming and going, wanting and getting,
Staying alive is with these only.
Insensate and sensate, any atomic mind,
Everybody's life is traced by this scheme.

I can't say: I did not desire to come
Or that anyone remaining must not go off.
By this frequent-visiting's everlasting sport,
Horse-bells and chariot-wheels proceed;
They're cloaked by the fancy of Cosmic Psyche.

A tree's verdancy and the sun's color ruddy,
Upon hope's sky moonlight's honeyed beauty–
To give them speech there's no frontier.
That Master, He creates this obscurity:
Staying-and-not-staying's mystery.

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