Somewhere in time
Somewhere in time,
Over a fire fluttered two butterflies.
They were fanning the flames,
Relentlessly from sunrise to sunrise,
Till the fire summoned their names.
Somewhere in time,
I’m lost in a land of graves,
So people say I’m no longer wise.
But I can still feel the butterflies’ waves,
And see the moment of their demise.
附一首诗， 反倒是找不到中文原文。 不过英文翻译读着也很不错。
To Xia
My dear,
I'll never give up the struggle for freedom from the oppressors'
jail, but I'll be your willing prisoner for life.
I'm your lifelong prisoner, my love
I want to live in your dark insides
surviving on the dregs in your blood
inspired by the flow of your estrogen
I hear your constant heartbeat
drop by drop, like melted snow from a mountain stream
if I were a stubborn, million-year rock
you'd bore right through me
drop by drop
day and night
Inside you
I grope in the dark
and use the wine you've drunk
to write poems looking for you
I plead like a deaf man begging for sound
Let the dance of love intoxicate your body
I always feel
your lungs rise and fall when you smoke
in an amazing rhythm
you exhale my toxins
I inhale fresh air to nourish my soul
I'm your lifelong prisoner, my love
like a baby loath to be born
clinging to your warm uterus
you provide all my oxygen
all my serenity
A baby prisoner
in the depths of your being
unafraid of alcohol and nicotine
the poisons of your loneliness
I need your poisons
need them too much
Maybe as your prisoner
I'll never see the light of day
but I believe
darkness is my destiny
inside you
all is well
The glitter of the outside world
scares me
exhausts me
I focus on
your darkness –
simple and impenetrable
From No Enemies, No Hatred: Selected Essays and Poems by Xiaobo Liu. Copyright © 2012 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College.
