INGO

Died on the 21st day of the eighth month, 1281 at the age of seventy two

Three and seventy years
I've drawn pure water from the fire---
Now I become a tiny bug.
With a touch of my body
I shatter all worlds.

Japanese Death Poems

odd I would pick this poem as I was born six hundred and sixty two years latter on the same day... huh!

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