翻译Mary Oliver玛丽•奥利弗- The Journey 旅行
The Journey by Mary Oliver
One day you finally knew what you had to do, and began, though the voices around you kept shouting their bad advice— though the whole house began to tremble and you felt the old tug at your ankles. "Mend my life!" each voice cried. But you didn’t stop. You knew what you had to do, though the wind pried with its stiff fingers at the very foundations, though their melancholy was terrible. It was already late enough, and a wild night, and the road full of fallen branches and stones. But little by little, as you left their voices behind, the stars began to burn through the sheets of clouds, and there was a new voice which you slowly recognized as your own, that kept you company as you strode deeper and deeper into the world, determined to do the only thing you could do— determined to save the only life you could save.
旅行
玛丽•奥利弗
一天你终于知道了
必须做什么，并开始做，
虽然你周围的声音
不停喊出
它们糟糕的主意——
虽然整座房子
开始摇晃
你感到往事拉扯着
你的脚踝。
“救治我的生命吧！”
每个声音都在叫喊。
但你并未停下，
你知道必须做什么，
虽然风用执拗的
手指撬动着
根基，
虽然它们的忧郁
糟糕至极。
已经
够晚了，这个狂野之夜，
路上堆满了落下的
树枝和石头。
但是渐渐的，
当你把它们的声音抛之脑后，
星辰开始燃烧
穿过薄云，
新的声音出现了
你渐渐意识到
那是你的声音，
它陪伴着你
当你一步一步
深入这个世界，
决心去做
你唯一能做的事情——
决心拯救
你唯一能拯救的生命。
小亮
2019/12/16
