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Can anyone tell me what the poem below means? I thought it means making choices, or life/death. Can anyone support that?

BETWEEN GOING AND STAYING (by Octavio Paz)

Between going and staying the day wavers,
in love with its own transparency.
The circular afternoon is now a bay
where the world in stillness rocks.

All is visible and all elusive,
all is near and can't be touched.

Paper, book, pencil, glass,
rest in the shade of their names.

Time throbbing in my temples repeats
the same unchanging syllable of blood.

The light turns the indifferent wall
into a ghostly theater of reflections.

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MissPhiladelphia
I think the poem is about how we feel whenever there is a change in our lives. Like we don't know where to go. We are left in the middle as we watch things change and we can't do anything about it. We can see it, feel it, but there's nothing we can do. Thank you for posting your question. I hope that this answer helped you. Let me know if you need more help. 

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