POEM ~ FAITH

信心
              戴潍.怀特
 
 
 
我想写信心
 
写月亮升起的变换
 
在那寒冷冰雪之上, 一晚又一晚
 
 
 
纵然明月由盈转亏
 
   慢慢地变成最后一弯
 
       在黑暗来临时失去它银色的光线
 
但我已失去信心
 
    把所有的入口都关得很严
 
 
 
 
 
让它去吧, 让我的小诗
 
   像一弯新月, 细长而纤巧
 
       成为叩开信心之门的第一声祈祷
 
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                FAITH
 
 
 
I want to write about faith,
about the way the moon rises
over cold snow, night after night,
 
 
 
 
faithful even as it fades from fullness,
slowly becoming that last curving and impossible
sliver of light before the final darkness.
But I have no faith myself
I refuse it even the smallest entry.
 
 
 
 
 
Let this then, my small poem,
like a new moon, slender and barely open,
be the first prayer that opens me to faith.
 
 
-- David Whyte