Silent Redemption

My flesh is warm, my eyes are white
 a thousand ropes, a thousand knives
 "If you fear death, die now!
 Having died once
 you won't have to die again"
 Dense is my turmoil here
 where the cowards were brave
 The crows enthralled by pleasures
 The whispers of the Yurei
 Rattle my senses and let it
 slithered away… into the Jukai
 A black sea made of trees
 Downward the Mouth of the Earth
 The innocent was caught;
 His sanity escaped between the barks.
 My skin is cold, my eyes are white
 a thousand ropes, a thousand pills
 "If you fear death, die now!
 Having died once
 you won't have to die again"
 Bury my body when it is found
 beneath a white stone
 or upon the brasiers of old
 ….and give thy last breath unto the whole
 thy last breath unto the whole
 and my skin is cold, my eyes are white
 a thousand ropes, a thousand guns
 "If you fear death, die now!
 Having died once
 you won't have to die again"- Hakuin Ekaku