1. Life is short and sorrowfulfor every living soul.
2. We are flowers that fadeand shadows that vanish.
3. And so, I ask you, God,why pick on me?
4. There's no way a humancan be completely pure.
5. Our time on earth is brief;the number of our daysis already decided by you.
6. Why don't you leave us aloneand let us find some happinesswhile we toil and labour?
7. When a tree is chopped down,there is always the hopethat it will sprout again.
8. Its roots and stump may rot,
9. but at the touch of water,fresh twigs shoot up.