Tuesday, May 11, 2010

from Akira Kurosawa's 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 men
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