Try and cry.
Cry and try
Again and again.
And again
Get the same, feel the same, the same pain.
It's the circle of Sansara,
It's a rule of heartless Karma:
If you feel, you are to suffer,
If you live, you are to suffer.
You do suffer while you live.
Happiness is just a dream.
Why, oh, why
Fall down and cry,
Rise and cry,
And fall down again?
Why again
Be smashed down by fate's wheels every day?
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