Life Is Both Real and Illusory

After enduring nothing but deception in this life,

she came to believe life was a dream, both real and joyful.

"Do you want to live?

Come with me!" the man asked, reaching out his hand.

Many years later, she still couldn’t understand why she had taken the hand of a stranger that day.

She thought she had finally found someone she could trust, though she could never understand his eyes.

She thought she could spend her life in those simple days, but in the end,

what was destined to come still came.

She thought it had all been nothing but a dream.

He thought he had finally forgotten her, too.

But when she was willing to sacrifice the world for another man, her heart still ached.