Sunday 29 April 2007

In keeping with my mood, a Japanese death poem :

Empty-handed I entered the world
Barefoot I leave it.
My coming, my going --
Two simple happenings
That got entangled.

Kozan Ichikyo, died February 12, 1360, at 77



You can read more beautiful Japanese death poems here
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