失去的岁月 THE LOST YEARS

作者:苑眉

时间:2009-5-10 周日, 下午1:49

失去的岁月

作者:艾青

不像丢失的包袱

可以到失物招领处找得回来,

失去的岁月

甚至不知丢失在什么地方——

有的是零零星星地消失的,

有的丢失了十年二十年,

有的丢失在喧闹的城市,

有的丢失在遥远的荒原,

有的是人潮汹涌的车站,

有的是冷冷清清的小油灯下面;

丢失了的不像是纸片,可以拣起来

倒更像一碗水投到地面

被晒干了,看不到一点影子;

时间是流动的液体——

用筛子、用网,都打捞不起;

时间不可能变成固体,

要成了化石就好了,

即使几万年也能在岩层里找见。

时间也像是气体,

像急驰的列车头上冒出的烟!

失去了的岁月好像一个朋友,

断掉了联系,经受了一些苦难,

忽然得到了消息;说他

早已离开了人间

THE LOST YEARS

WR. by Aiqing

TR. by Yuanmei

unlike a lost cloth-wrapper

you can get back at the Lost and Found

the lost years

even no one knows where it is lost --

in dribs and drabs

for ten or twenty years

in a noisy city

on a remote wasteland

at a crowded station

by a desolate oil lamp...

unlike a scrap of paper you can pick up, either

the lost years

but more like a bowl of water

thrown on the ground, dried by the sun

and then nothing left

time is liquid

you can't fish it with a sieve or a net

time can't be solid --

if it was a fossil, it would be great

for even ages later you can still find it out

between the rock layers

time is gaseous

like the smoke snorted out

from a fast running train

the lost years

like a long lost friend

suffering some pains

and unexpectedly, there news says:

he has passed away

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