▲ 5 r/Pessimism
The Old Woman's Song From 'Throne of Blood'
Strange is the world
Why should men
Receive life in this world?
Men’s lives are as meaningless
As the lives of insects
The terrible folly
Of such suffering
A man lives but
As briefly as a flower
Destined all too soon
To decay into the stink of flesh
Humanity strives
All its days
To sear its own flesh
In the flames of base desire
Exposing itself
To Fate’s Five Calamities
Heaping karma upon karma
All that awaits Man
At the end
Of his travails
Is the stench of rotting flesh
That will yet blossom into flower
Its foul odor rendered
Into sweet perfume
Oh, fascinating
The life of Man
Oh, fascinating
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