A lengthened life — the subduing of egoism,
A summing-up of what was lived, karma returned,
Of the Commandment
The Fifth
Fulfillment,
The realization
That nothing is in vain.

A slowed pension, missing the grandchildren.
And my childhood — ink and a pencil case.
What was heard and seen, with bliss and with hardships,
Braided into fate, binds the finale.

They could have managed here without me,
But since there was demand, and they hired me —
Payment for the mission will not be LATE:
Reward or punishment will not pass by.