Your life is just a dream

"The way of awareness",  吴达立

Your life is just a dream

as a snowflake

fragile, uncatchable

reflets its infinite shadows within the firmament

once only,

then fades away

into a universal stillness.

Your life is just a dream

ripples on the pool with no depth

as one wave after the others

billows out a pompous citadel,

where is the abode of an isolated king

who never lost a battle before

but still

swiftly died over the mirage

Faraway,

drops splashing.

Your life is just a dream

as a thread of smoke

streams thinly penumbras on the window

devoid of chains

comes and goes

sways,

under the slanting rays of winter sun

“达立与天鹅”， Nathaniel

Your life is just a dream

as being part of endless maze

Walls give direction but hinder you from breaking through

Yourself is the start point of chaos

Find a way

to approve all else paths

Wellaway!

If I were aware of this before

I’d be much more honest, more brave with myself

even more jolly, more sterling

Yet the regrets are trivial,

beneath the eternal will 

remain the deepest agonies,

and the dream-like life

perpetual always,

never be soiled nor engulfed.