一个人向命运抗议：

A person protests to fate:

“你致使我

"The things you have caused

最想要的东西

me most to want

最遥不可及。”

are those that furthest elude me."

命运点头。

Fate nods.

命运有同情心。

Fate is sympathetic.

系上鞋带，系上衬衫纽扣，

To tie the shoes, button a shirt,

是一种凯旋，

are triumphs

仅仅对那些年幼者

for only the very young,

和年老者。

the very old.

而在这漫长的时间中：

During the long middle:

给一颗铆钉变位

conjugating a rivet

精通探戈

mastering tango

训练一只猫不跳上桌子

training the cat to stay off the table

储存起比此刻更长久的一瞬

preserving a single moment longer than this one

持续唤醒前一天所发生的

continuing to wake whatever has happened the day before

还有爱的书法在身体里践行。

and the penmanships love practices inside the body.