Wen Fu 10 “Originality” [文赋十] by Lu Ji [陆机] [w/Audio]

Splendid thoughts arise from joined words --
Lucidity is awakened:
Luminous like adorned brocade,
Doleful as a string serenade.
But if crib suspicions aren't killed,
It'll be just one more pulp piece.
Though you may be these word's weaver--
Some ancestor, the prime conceiver.
You must be just and rise above,
Though it kills words you've grown to love.

The original lines in Simplified Chinese:

或藻思绮合,清丽千眠。
炳若缛绣,凄若繁弦。
必所拟之不殊,乃暗合乎曩篇。
虽杼轴于予怀,怵佗人之我先。
苟伤廉而愆义,亦虽爱而必捐。

PROMPT: Phase in Life

Daily writing prompt
Describe a phase in life that was difficult to say goodbye to.

I guess it’s a confession of antsiness to admit that I haven’t experienced such a time. I left home a week before my high school graduation ceremony. I never gave reenlistment serious consideration when I was in the military. There was a several year gap between my undergraduate studies and my first graduate degree. I’ve never left a job teary-eyed.

If it’s the case that everyone experiences such a time, then mine is yet to come.