Whoever comes into this world must in the end go again
He is a guest; one day he must journey to his homeland
Yunus Emre, Dîvân, poem 139, couplet 1 (Mustafa Tatçı, Yunus Emre Dîvanı: Tenkitli Metin, Ankara: Kültür Bakanlığı Yayınları, 1990, p. 149).
Whoever comes, goes.
Yunus does not say it to frighten,
he says it as if reckoning a journey.
Whoever knows he is a guest
holds things differently.
He settles into the room,
but does not take the walls for his own.
The rich leave through this door, and the poor.
The wise, and the simple.
The heaviest truths
are sometimes carried in the simplest words.