[英譯] 像蛹忍住蝶 / 陳依文

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Like a larva holding on for transformation / Chen, Yi-Wen

　　　我想請你
　　　堅強地忍住脆弱
　　　像蛹忍住蝶，楓葉忍住秋天
　　　新濺下的
　　　一枚水滴忍住破散

I would like you to
firmly resist your weakness
like a chrysalis holding back a butterfly,
a maple leaf resisting the autumn
a newly splashed
droplet resisting breakup

　　　我想請你
　　　平衡內在的美麗
　　　如雪花的結構、流蘇的四瓣
　　　泛黃的紙卷上
　　　夜靜春山空的一首五絕

I would like you to
balance your inner beauty
like the structure of a snowflake,
the four petals of a finger tree flower
a quatrain on a yellowed paper scroll:
“a still night, an empty spring mountain”

　　　我想請你
　　　寬容一株水仙的秘密
　　　原宥一條月江的曲折
　　　直視陰雨直落的灰霾天空
　　　如同傾聽一句赤裸的禱詞
　　　像海洋
　　　擁抱一場暴風雨的告解

I would like you to
tolerate the secrets of a narcissus
forgive the twists of a moonlit river
look straight at the murky sky as rain falls down
just like listening to a naked prayer
like the ocean
embracing the absolution of a storm

　　　然後，或許你願意
　　　走上沒落的邊城
　　　繁華的都心
　　　看看生，看看死
　　　看看一切熱鬧與無常
　　　尊嚴與肅殺

Then, maybe you would be willing
to walk through a declining border town
through a prosperous city center
see life, see death
see all the bustle and transience
dignity and cold lifelessness

　　　生命有時
　　　靜美如詩，荒涼如蔓
　　　激越如鷹翱翔
　　　寂寞如碑蒙塵

Sometimes, life is
as quietly beautiful as a poem, as desolate as a vine
as intense as a soaring eagle
as lonely as a dust-covered stele

　　　至末時移、境遷，容顏更改
　　　旅途得很久了
　　　我們回到出發時的房間
　　　原點與終點繞成完美的環

And so time passes, places alter, faces change
it has been a long journey
we return to the room we set off from
origin and destination curl into a perfect ring

　　　我將認出你標定後的眼神
　　　洗鍊貞定
　　　如不鏽的鋼珠
　　　圓整地，於暗室中
　　　反射出簡淨的光芒

I shall recognize the look in your eyes
after calibration: clear, unswerving
like steel beads that do not rust
roundly, in a dark room
reflecting pure light

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