I would like to watch you sleeping,

我愿意看你睡觉，

which may not happen.

这也许不会发生。

I would like to watch you,

我愿意看你

sleeping. I would like to sleep

睡觉。我愿意和你

with you, to enter

同睡，进入

your sleep as its smooth dark wave

你的睡眠，当它光滑的黑浪

slides over my head

滑过我的脑袋

and walk with you through that lucent

我愿意和你穿过那片透亮的

wavering forest of bluegreen leaves

摇曳着青绿色叶子的树林

with its watery sun & three moons

它湿润的太阳和三个月亮

towards the cave where you must descend,

走向你必须下去的洞穴，

towards your worst fear

走向你最糟糕的恐惧

I would like to give you the silver

我愿意送给你银色的

branch, the small white flower, the one

树枝，小白花，一个

word that will protect you

将保护你的词语

from the grief at the center

使你远离你梦的深处的

of your dream, from the grief

悲哀，远离深处的

at the center. I would like to follow

悲哀。我愿意跟随你

you up the long stairway

再次走上长长的楼梯

again & become

变成

the boat that would row you back

把你载回来的船

carefully, a flame

小心地，一个火苗

in two cupped hands

拢在两只手里

to where your body lies

你的躯体躺在我

beside me, and you enter

旁边，你进入它

it as easily as breathing in

轻松得就像吸进一口空气

I would like to be the air

我愿意是空气

that inhabits you for a moment

在你内部仅仅居住了

only. I would like to be that unnoticed

片刻。我愿意是那不受注意

& that necessary.

又不可缺少的东西。