For What Reason?

They walked past mountains and rivers, wastelands, and saw dust as well as more of a desert…

It was as if the prosperity of one breath had withered away in the next breath. Just whose face would remain young? Whose sigh would stay forever? Whose past… was not be beautiful?

Su Ming sat down in the wreckage and watched the sun set. They were beside a mountain and river, watching the evening arrive. The echo of laughter seemed to come through the passage of time and ring in their ears, causing them to be unable to tell… just what sort of karma was contained in the beautiful moments of the past that brought forth the destruction around them.

When they lowered their heads, they could not tell what sort of cycles of life and death were contained in the destruction, or else… why was it that when they closed their eyes and opened them after, everything in the world had changed, even though it was still the same world.