Impermanence

A sonnet in Tamil on the doomed quest for permanence:

Un nizhalai pidikka odinaal,
Mudivillaadha oru otram.
Nilaiyaai nindru naadinaal,
Puriyum adharkillai thotram.

Maatram undaakkum kalagam,
Maaraamal iruppadhu edhu.
Maarikkonde irukkum ulagam,
Sollum mattram mattrume adhu.

Edhayum edhirpadhoru gunam,
Aanal thevai adharkum mudivu.
Etru kolla vendum manam,
Vegamaai vandhu vidum vidivu.

Interpretation in English:

After your shadow, if you dart,
It will have no conclusion.
Standing still, pick it apart,
Its form is but an illusion.

Change does muddle the mind,
For nothing remains forever.
A changing world does remind,
Change alone changes never.

'Tis our nature to resist,
But it cannot go on and on.
For acceptance is the gist,
As it ushers in a new dawn.