Between Going and Staying (Octavio Paz)- HELP

Question

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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.

I find myself in the middle of an eye,

watching myself in its blank stare.

The moment scatters. Motionless,

I stay and go: I am a pause.

Answer 1

For me, this is more about self-awareness. He seems to reflecting on the extemporaneous nature of things. I hear him talking to his poetry, asking it to be more than, "Paper, book, pencil, glass."

Answer 2

For me it seems to be about a moment in time.  A lot of things all happening in a split second.  If the poem means something else to you it doesn't matter.  It makes the words multi-purpose.

Answer 3

quiz tomorrow?

Answer 4

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