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第11章 Shipwrecked (4)

From this shore to that shore

Echo, travelling upstream

Around the cliff to disappear into the horizon

Tears drop into the undying burner, suddenly

Wild wind and surprising waves come in body and is with body

How can surging water be compared with surging blood

They run painstakingly only

To run after the ship bound for Sichuan

Like thousands of tons of rust solution bursting out of the throat

34.

The sorrow

In spite of burning into ashes

And they never stop calling pain

Haunting

Lingering

Already beyond hills upon hills

Turning into lava

Pouring into the unapproachable chest

35.

It is who

It is which ear that is standing straight

Abhorring evil as a deadly foe gushing out of my throat

And never have I had the annual ring of simultaneous bursting of human beings and beasts

If anybody is willing to believe the fact which has been a verdict

Like belief in God

Or to become pious followers of a religion

To extradite water from the River of Forgetfulness

36.

No doubt this is the only way to happiness

In a dream to step into the grassland covered with briers and brambles

Making gorgeous flowers blossom in vain near my tomb

Raising you high to extend the hand for help

Stepping toward the abyss gradually

— Galloping against the blood of the steed

To aggravate against the irreplaceable peak

37.

O, river the swan song of life

The idea of myriads of things and beings

The symbol of the world is like blood and dusk

Like a stem of lotus blossom growing out of the ruins

With the most touching smiling face to open to all sides

Exhibiting countless bloody flowers

38.

Like a river running through my chest day and night

Like an unexpected guest bursting into my home in midnight

Suddenly awakened by this

Dazed eyes heavenward

In this way

I am hung in the air

Standing into the eyes of a person

The river of life is doomed

Along the course of the river my mind scampers

It is doomed the funeral of the deceased is to be held in some evening

39.

Therefore, more and more consciously I come to know

The river bends and the river of life extends forever

And those white bones in battles

Are exposed in the sad wailing of the bloody steed

It is nothing

But a process

Or the instant of time

Stationing at the peak of sorrow

To burn a confusing ball of fire —

My home

40.

Even if

Such an hour comes again

The river of wind erosion turns with the wind

Water, rises to be cloud

The mud stamped into moss

I am still I how can I box myself in

Perhaps the end of time

Is unimaginable

Overnight

The soaring wings are bloody

While another little life is born joyously

To play wordless emotions

Walking with the river

41.

But who can expect that he

Is a prince or father of wisdom

Standing on hands at the dim and distant source

To water

Mouths which are poor or rich or pure

When the ground is up and down the birds make a nest in your starry sky

It is your deep blue eyes

Burning the wilderness of the world

But before the angry flame

He shall always be the incarnation of the Creator

The day and night is like a wheel which is quickly

Running away

In the depth of a remote soul

Head buried the land of my deep thought

42.

Please do not give up the receding tears and dreams

In the past years we are as close as brothers

The journey where step by step walking into the realm of heart

If the action is said to be a love letter

It will be the most intimate friend of ours my love

Or in the following days we are more dependent on each other for survival

No matter how distant is the journey the burning flame

Is awakening crowds and crowds of gathering people

To leap into the inmost depth my garden of roses

Now I see again

Both wings of the road are fair with countless flowers

In expectation of someday plucking gorgeous flowers of the stars

Pressed to the bosom to show love of the world

Eternal and boundless I am thinking

If it really is a blossom of ideal

It is going to be the most beautiful thing under heaven

43.

When spring comes

They often harbor an ill intention

In the world of water

One after another outspread body is bathing in the sun

As if finding oneself or somebody beyond oneself

Declaration to the world:

We are a pack of poker-faced people

The forehead is carved with the original portrait of the end of the century

And the name of the same stone and large and small bridges

We will forever belong to you

The moving mountains of the world

The heart open with stars …

44.

Now I come among them

Strolling with them on the lawn which is dusk and desolate

Flying dust is first seen about a flock of blue sheep

It blows against the face it is originally deemed

It is merely a handful of dust merely

The sandbank of soil of mutual help in humble circumstances

In an instant a spell after another spell of breeze set foot

No sooner no later it turns out to be two spring points

But my answer is still Heaven and Earth in one

Only one kind of water and the fine power of water

Can kill famine

And can face oneself really

45.

To believe or to doubt the crowd of people walking on the flagpole without marks

Are howling and wailing into my ears

But still I wait for them

When they are away from their kith and kin

Gentle wind blows hither

Time leaves our mind so hastily

Sliding to somewhere out of the line of sight

The stone is after all stone

And through the final meeting

We own a hilt separately

Along the increasing height of the high continent

The two banks confront each other or in my wild voice

The spiritual inner sea tends to be quiet and restful

Meanwhile to produce two different voices —

46.

Qiaojiwa is back

Masimu is back

It is high time

Let them abandon themselves to singing dancing

Let those who are standing in darkness feast their eyes

Lest they weep bitter tears in search

Of the perching shrine and the accomplice of the fire robber

Lest the noble forehead is hanged in the encampment

Nobody can approach truth

Now the continued story is being eulogized by us

To hold high your great flag to rescue