5月10日

母難日：矛盾世界
余光中 ( 1928~ )

快樂的世界
當初我們見面
妳迎我以微笑
而我答妳以大哭
驚天，動地

悲哀的世界
最後我們分手
我送妳以大哭
而妳答我以無言
關天，閉地

矛盾的世界啊
不論初見或永別
我總是對妳以大哭
哭世界始於妳一笑
而幸福終於妳閉目

──選自《余光中詩選》

May 10

Happy Was the World: To Mother
Yu Guangzhong (1928 - )
English translation: Yu Guangzhong

Happy was the world
Where, when first we met,
You greeted me with a smile,
And I answered with a cry
That move heaven and earth.

Sad was the world
Where, when at last we parted,
I saw you off with a cry,
And you answered with a silence
That closed heaven and earth.

Strange was the world
Where, seeing you first to last,
I always cried aloud
How with your smile the world began
And how without it bliss ended.

── from Yu Guangzhong Shixuan (Selected Poems by Yu Guangzhong)