How can any trace of the travelers to the world of non-existence (the dead) ever be found? They departed in such a manner that they left no footprints behind anywhere.
This couplet captures the quiet, irreversible mystery of death with poignant simplicity. The poet refers to the departed as 'travelers to the void' and wonders how those left behind could ever trace them. They have not merely walked away; they vanished so completely that not even a single footprint remains, leaving the living with an unreachable silence and profound longing.
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