英诗汉译：理智/Keeping Our Small Boat Afloat

戒指

理智

刃船 / 译

强烈地上膛
我们征服了新的边疆，还是
要欣赏亿万光年的悲伤

不是为了解释创造
改掉错误。不过是后来人
看着地球，拾材加火

美味的梦想是生活的磕盼
你紧张的嘴巴。怎会放弃希望
怜悯之门微微敞开

自当你告诉我了很是悲伤
你从无表达一丝闪光
信徒聚拢到慈母安息之处？

光芒从未思量贡献出
空气让我们继续生存
我们却无法超越悲伤

这最值得原谅，只是
理智地坚持着呀
那么多珍惜席卷而去


Keeping Our Small Boat Afloat


Robert Bly（USA）/ 文


So many blessings have been given to us
During the first distribution of light, that we are
Admired in a thousand galaxies for our grief.

Don't expect us to appreciate creation or to
Avoid mistakes.  Each of us is a latecomer
To the earth, picking up wood for the fire.

Every night another beam of light slips out
From the oyster's closed eye.  So don't give up hope
That the door of mercy may still be open.

Seth and Shem, tell me, are you still grieving
Over the spark of light that descended with no
Defender near into the Egypt of Mary's womb?

It's hard to grasp how much generosity
Is involved in letting us go on breathing,
When we contribute nothing valuable but our grief.

Each of us deserves to be forgiven, if only for
Our persistence in keeping our small boat afloat
When so many have gone down in the storm.