母親 The Mother. 091028
《母親》
很久很久以前，
有一個孩子從遙遠的空中掉了下來。
落入了地球的荒野中，
沒有人知道他去了哪裡。
他的母親苦苦尋遍了這個世界，
卻杳無蹤影。
黑夜來臨了，
她砸破天幕，
好讓光能從萬千缺口灑落，
讓她失落的孩子免於恐懼。
為了尋找自己唯一的孩子，
從此她無法離開。
她的身軀總在雲的背後隱藏。
人們能看見她飄散的髮絲反射星光成的銀河，
能看見她背後的千萬顆星光，
卻沒辦法看見她永恆哭泣的雙眼。
因為她早已經瞎了。
在悲傷地尋找的路上，
母親終於脫離了自己的軀殼，
成為了世界的一部份。
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“The Mother”
Once upon a time
A child fell from the sky
Disappeared into Earth’s deserts
No-one knows where
All alone, his mother
Searched in vain
When night came
Sky-holes she made
Sunlight shone through
To save her child from fear
Searching for her only child
She could never leave the quest
She hides behind the clouds
Her hair the Milky Way
Ten thousand stars behind
See not her ever-weeping eyes
She is already blind
Mother left her body behind
In the sadness and searching
And became one with the world
//translated to English by Dave Hodgkinson//
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charcoal and pencil, paper. 091028. London.
