I am able to follow my own death step by step. Now I move softly towards the end.

The line expresses a lucid, almost clinical awareness of dying: death is not a sudden abstraction but a process the speaker can “follow…step by step.” The second sentence shifts from observation to acceptance—“move softly” suggests restraint, humility, and a deliberate refusal of drama. Read in the context of a religious leader, it also implies spiritual readiness: the end is approached with composure rather than fear, as if death is a final passage to be met attentively. The simplicity of the diction underscores sincerity, turning a private reckoning into a model of calm, faithful resignation.