In my first life, you were the lotus that illuminated my way through the fog, but I mistook someone else for my moonlight;
In my second life, you sank into a sea of karma like a lotus, and the one I fished out was only a shadow in a dream;
I refused to accept fate’s cruel hand. When our lotus bond blossomed, I was reborn and returned.
In this life, I will take a lotus for a boat and carve my bones into oars,
Burn away the infatuation of three lifetimes and ferry you out of this sea of worldly suffering,
Until the lotus fades, the seedpod forms, the heart finds stillness, and enlightenment is attained.
