1. Life changes rapidly to desires
And to the edges of battlefields

2. You see them change
And every limb has passion

3. Some grow grey and others
Wear out over months

4. Their whiteness darkens and the beast
Grows white without light

5. Until when death changes
It comes upon the people of graves

6. Decay began at the edges
Of battlefields, there, and at desires

7. So death preserves what
Life wears out of things

8. And living preserves what
Death without falsehood wears out