像蛹忍住蝶 / 陳依文
Like a larva holding on for transformation / Chen, Yi-Wen

我想⿰言青你
I would like you to
堅強地忍住脆弱
firmly resist your weakness
像蛹忍住蝶，楓葉忍住秋天
like a chrysalis holding back a butterfly, a maple leaf resisting the autumn
新濺下的
a newly splashed
一枚水滴忍住破散
droplet resisting breakup

我想⿰言青你
I would like you to
平衡內在的美麗
balance your inner beauty
如雪花的結構、流蘇的四瓣
like the structure of a snowflake, the four petals of a finger tree flower
泛黃的紙卷上
a quatrain on a yellowed paper scroll:
夜靜春山空的一首五絕
“a still night, an empty spring mountain”

我想⿰言青你
I would like you to
寬容一株水仙的秘密
tolerate the secrets of a narcissus
原宥一條月江的曲折
forgive the twists of a moonlit river
直視陰雨直落的灰霾天空
look straight at the murky sky as rain falls down
如同傾聽一句赤裸的禱詞
just like listening to a naked prayer
像海洋
like the ocean
擁抱一場暴風雨的告解
embracing the absolution of a storm

然後，或許你願意
Then, maybe you would be willing
走上沒落的邊城
to walk through a declining border town
繁華的都心
through a prosperous city center
看看生，看看死
see life, see death
看看一切熱鬧與無常
see all the bustle and transience
尊嚴與肅殺
dignity and cold lifelessness

生命有時
Sometimes, life is
靜美如詩，荒涼如蔓
as quietly beautiful as a poem, as desolate as a vine
激越如鷹翱翔
as intense as a soaring eagle
寂寞如碑蒙塵
as lonely as a dust-covered stele

至末時移、境遷，容顏更改
And so time passes, places alter, faces change
旅途得很久了
it has been a long journey
我們回到出發時的房間
we return to the room we set off from
原點與終點繞成完美的環
origin and destination curl into a perfect ring

我將認出你標定後的眼神
I shall recognize the look in your eyes after calibration:
洗鍊貞定
clear, unswerving
如不鏽的鋼珠
like steel beads that do not rust
圓整地，於暗室中
roundly, in a dark room
反射出簡淨的光芒
reflecting pure light