I’ll wait for you on the slope of my old age,

我要去暮年的山坡上等你

too close to be much closer.

我們已近得無法再近

Two hearts, this paper flesh

兩顆心幾乎要透過薄薄的肉身

tearing to embrace.

相互摟抱在一起

Yours hijacked once by emptiness,

你那顆被虛無劫持過的心啊

your eye sockets deep as temple bowls,

深眼窩像寺廟裏的一對空碗

their hollow silence drawing all my strength.

靜靜地吸附我的激烈

How leaves drift toward earth,

我終於明白飄臨大地的落葉

toward calm, time’s wooing.

為何都有被歲月說服的安靜表情

That fir tree, its limbs in farewell,

而那棵舉起訣別之手的樅樹

grown taller than any,

注定要高出眾樹

taller than itself.

高過自身——

Thus nothingness settles on my lips.

虛無，就這樣來到我的唇上