當我描述

When I describe

你的缺席，

your absence,

你便與我

here you are

同在

with me

這白色的

on the white sheets

紙單上。

of paper.

上個星期

Last week 

在床單上

on real sheets

我捂住雙耳拒絕

I covered my ears against your talk of leaving—

你關於離別的話語——

there was no such talk.

不曾有這樣的話。

It is an old argument:

這是一場古老的爭吵：

the tree falling

樹倒於

in the forest

林間

with no one 

而無人

to hear.

傾聽。

Now I am lost

此刻我迷失在

in that forest.

那片森林。