Only Once

Only Once

Yet death comes only once, too

Too precious to waste in deathbed rue

Greatest grief is beauty and youth fail

To evade the ravage of age and ail

If death comes once for all

Why not dance out of the hall

Like a moth to light give its last kiss

Hence go to flame in a sudden bliss

Those air-bound spirits when crashes happen

Will surely take a lift to heaven

When asked, “would you take another chance?”

“no subjunctive mode for the last dance.”

Only once to live, and to die out of breath

Mortals can survive neither life or death

一次性死亡

好像每年总有些日子

人们要为死去的亲人烧纸钱

烧纸人纸马，过冬的寒衣

供奉几样吃的喝的祭品

好像阴间和阳间的生活一样

少不了衣食住行的羁縻

既如此，等于白死一回

甚至没给活着的人减轻负担

既然人生只能死一次

应该死得和活着大不一样

可以飞， 不惧道路崎岖

可以不衣不食，可以永在

可以不再转世回生

这大概才是死的意义所在