一陣喧亮的鳴響過後

The long siren wailing,

救護車在前面遠去

the packed traffic

密集的城市曾讓出一道裂縫

cleft in quick silence,

暫且為它靜默

the ambulance already far ahead,

如今不過是前方

a white, shrinking spot beneath a ruby blur,

一點逐漸細小的白色

its cry the signature

還有隱約一橫紅線

of one will, unsparing truth

是昔才符號鮮明的鳴響

commanding a whole city.

不容猶疑的決心甚至

Everything postpones, time stammering

擁有全城最堅定的方向

as the ambulance insists

持守它真實而凜然的使命

left, right, straight,

還會有誰呢沒有躑躅囁嚅

crossing the lines

就只有它執意左旋右轉

kept by thousands.

眾目下越過界線

Then, like the Red Sea, cars

現在城市又像神蹟後的紅海

flood the lane shut,

重新合攏，復淹沒眾多事物

the ambulance vanishing toward a distant realm

真的遠去了，向著遙遠的世界

bearing its cargo of mystery

車廂內是另一神秘國度

all the way from childhood.

縈繞童年不可知的想像

Hope maintains

彷彿載著眾生的希望

its handshake with the steady heart—

連結車內持續心跳

hemorrhage or coma,

那淌血或昏死的誰

each breath in breathed out.

勉力吞吐一絲微弱的呼吸