You don't find it so? So brief, so full of hardship and pain.
[He simply enjoys reciting poetry himself and will take any opportunity to do so. If someone else is doing the same, then all the better. Few people enjoy poetry as much as he does.]
Peace is but a shadow of death, Desperate to forget its painful past...
[His life is over, after all, and what joy was there in it?}
And while the moon still shines blue, By dawn, it will turn to scarlet hue.
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[He simply enjoys reciting poetry himself and will take any opportunity to do so. If someone else is doing the same, then all the better. Few people enjoy poetry as much as he does.]
Peace is but a shadow of death,
Desperate to forget its painful past...
[His life is over, after all, and what joy was there in it?}
And while the moon still shines blue,
By dawn, it will turn to scarlet hue.