1. No gold remains in the two worlds,
and most of what you see is pretense.

2. Leave them be—how many necks have been chopped
clean off while they were unaware and paid no heed.

3. They are steeped in hypocrisy and have become muddled.
They are shrouded in appearances and have become confused.

4. When their words are exposed, they are not
truths, but all pretense.

5. Their era and pulling them along have passed,
yet they remain as I knew them, unaware.