Time is Perplexing

A poet said:

"It is an obligation upon people to repent.
But leaving sins is even more of an obligaton.

Patience in the midst of hardships is difficult to bear.
But losing the opportunity for reward is more difficult to bear.

Time is indeed perplexing in the way it passes.
Yet people's heedlessness is even more perplexing.

Everything that is due to arrive is indeed close,
Yet death is closer than everything else."