你曾快乐,然后悲伤,
你又快乐,然后又悲伤。
如此继续。
你无辜,你有罪。
采取了行动,或没有。
有时候,你说话,其他时候,你沉默。
多半时候,你沉默——你能说什么呢?
现在差不多结束了。
像情人,你的生活弯下腰来吻你。
这么做不是为了宽恕——
你们之间,没有需要宽恕的——
而是像面包师一个,简单的点头, 当他看见面包已成形。
吃,现在成了一件为别人而做的事。
他们会用你、或你的日子做出一些东西,没关系:他们会犯错,
他们会怀念那错误的女人,怀念那些错误的男人,
他们讲述的所有故事只是编造。
你的故事是这样的:你曾快乐,又曾悲伤,
你睡下,你醒来。
有时候你吃烤栗子,有时候吃柿子。
It Was Like This:You Were Happy
It was like this:
You were happy,then you were sad,
Then happy again,then not.
It went on.
You were innocent or you were guilty.
Actions were taken,or not.
At times you spoke,at other times you were silent.
Mostly,it seems you were silent— what could you say?
Now it is almost over.
Like a lover,your life bends down and kisses your life.
It does this not in forgiveness —
Between you,there is nothing to forgive —
But with the simple nod of a baker at the moment,
He sees the bread is finished with transformation.
Eating,too,is now a thing only for others.
It doesn't matter what they will make of you,
Or your days:They will be wrong,
They will miss the wrong woman,miss the wrong man,
All the stories they tell will be tales of their own invention.
Your story was this:You were happy,then you were sad,
You slept,you awakened.
Sometimes you ate roasted chestnuts,sometimes persimmons.
By Jane Hirshfield
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