推 tricker13: 02/23 06:07
推 ctra: 02/23 16:53
The Moment by Margaret Atwood
<那片刻>
辛勤工作和長久旅程之後
許多年的，那個片刻
你站在正中央，你的房間，
房子，半畝，平方英哩，島嶼，國家，
終於知道你是怎麼一路走來
然後說，我擁有這些，
同樣的那個片刻，樹木們鬆開了
環繞你的手臂，
鳥獸們收回了牠們的語言，
峭壁裂開並崩毀，
空氣波浪似地自你身上向後退
然後你無法呼吸。
不，它們低語。你不擁有任何東西。
你是個觀光客，一次又一次
爬坡，插旗，宣告，而已。
我們從未屬於你過。
你從來沒找到我們。
一直以來都是反過來的。
原文：
The Moment by Margaret Atwood
The moment when, after many years
of hard work and a long voyage
you stand in the centre of your room,
house, half-acre, square mile, island, country,
knowing at last how you got there,
and say, I own this,
is the same moment when the trees unloose
their soft arms from around you,
the birds take back their language,
the cliffs fissure and collapse,
the air moves back from you like a wave
and you can't breathe.
No, they whisper. You own nothing.
You were a visitor, time after time
climbing the hill, planting the flag, proclaiming.
We never belonged to you.
You never found us.
It was always the other way round.
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