Torch of Time

“We are in the time after the torch has burned away”

“We are within Heaven’s Eye”

When the future is already set, how can those of us living in the present change the history that has been predetermined?

A glimpse across a thousand years? Watching a game until the wood rots?

“Beyond the sunken boat, a thousand sails pass; before the withered tree, ten thousand trees bloom anew”?

“Generation after generation, life goes on without end; year after year, the river moon looks much the same”?

May we remember:

Gold cannot be exchanged; dawn fills the sky, and the mist lifts from the curtain.

Time cannot be turned back; in a fleeting thought, the torch comes too late.