Declared Decrees — รวมบทกลอนภาษาอังกฤษ

ลำดับตอนที่ #1 : On the transience of life

[Free meter; Religious theme; On the fleeting nature of all.

Inspirations: the Book of Ecclesiastes, and a hadith]

What is it at the end of our path?

Is it even worth trying

To wander the desert, thinking,

'What is it that is hollowed?'

Who are you in this world

That the multitude should say

'Adored! Forever blessed'?

Are you the Prophet redeemed?

Or amongst the saints highly lifted?

Are you the chosen one that should

Raise up mankind from the pit?

Who am I in the throng of vanities—

For everything is in vain.

Meaningless, and meaningless,

All things are 

meaningless.

Do your best today and ever

But at last you shall be 

forgotten.

Be in haste and no one remembers.

People shall say today,

"Your name is shameful!

And may your words be forgotten."

But in the end all shall be so:

Forgotten and buried

Under the mountains of vanities.

God raises whomever he wills

And he, indeed, brings down.

"I shall afflict calamities

On he whom I love!" He declared.

Not every good shall be rewarded

On the earth to be shown.

Not every bad shall be destroyed

But in the After it is 

decreed.

So be despair of the fruits

Which grow from the seeds of actions.

And the fleeting days, you shall see,

Are nothing but mere illusion.