In the End

Tell me, can anyone truly survive in the end? Can anyone, despite their utmost efforts, truly make it through?
And even if they could...for how long?

In the end, no one returns, no one can return.
Not our grandfathers' grandfathers, not our mothers' mothers, not our own mothers, and never we ourselves.

In the end, none of us return,
none of us have any permanent home or dwelling, only a small patch of earth beneath our feet as shelter for a few days' rest.

At last, when all accounts are settled,
we all simply end, become nothing in the void, everyone must vanish without a trace.
Yes, in the end we do return, we must return...to that address,
from which no one ever returns, from which no one ever can.

In the end, none of us have anything left; what remains,
is all just shadows and half-shadows, emptiness and void.

None of us return, and we never will return again.
In the end, we can no longer witness the final moment!
Ah, life! Alas...!