Houses and People
Each spot each spot illuminates an image
the sea shore the plain the top of a mountain
the rice field the roadside the sad grey twilight
over there over here tends the light - -
Glittering splendour of life
every place every direction arriving in the city
the countryside riverbank districts near far
never without houses and people
The forms of houses are created by people
everywhere is old from the beginning
the dark ancient times are over
go beyond the past till you reach the present People build houses homes
by tending the light of their lives they build their dream
to sustain the truth all things
come from that - forever
Each place is the place of the dream of an image
gives a picture of the truth that is greater than
the centre of the most gloomy darkness
wherever it is under the sky there's a light
Glittering brightness of life
the deep dark night traveller the wide world
every place everywhere it pushes its way through
never without houses and people