1. I see death lying in wait for me as an ambush
So here I am, worried and sad.

2. The guide to death will catch up with me like those who passed before
Whether I go left or go right.

3. A young man's certainty of death is doubt and his doubt
Is certainty, yet he does not see it as certainty.

4. Eyes invisible to us watch for our death
Creeping through us with mortality.

5. And the world keeps overturning its people
Making one gaunt and another corpulent.