Shoes, secret face of my inner life:

鞋，我内心生活的隐秘脸庞

Two gaping toothless mouths,

两张没牙齿的大嘴

Two partly decomposed animal skins

两张腐烂的动物皮

Smelling of mice nests.

闻起来像耗子窝

My brother and sister who died at birth

我那出生时夭折的哥哥姐姐

Continuing their existence in you,

在你里面继续生存

Guiding my life

把我的生命

Toward their incomprehensible innocence.

引向他们谜一般的纯真

What use are books to me

书本对我有什么用？

When in you it is possible to read

在你里面，我可以读到

The Gospel of my life on earth

我尘世生活的福音

And still beyond, of things to come?

以及死后发生的一切

I want to proclaim the religion

基于你完美的谦逊

I have devised for your perfect humility

我设计出一种宗教

And the strange church I am building

我要建一所奇怪的教堂

With you as the altar.

把你奉在神坛上

Ascetic and maternal, you endure:

你忍耐着，既严刻又温柔

Kin to oxen, to Saints, to condemned men,

与牛群，圣徒，有罪的人亲近

With your mute patience, forming

你忍耐着，沉默不语

The only true likeness of myself.

成为我最真实的模样