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.