有人在黑暗中求光明；

Someone seeks light in darkness;

有人擎花走，走進尼姑庵；

someone enters a nunnery, flowers in humble hands;

有人昨夜渡輪上，看驟雨海面上升騰；

someone on the night ferry sees sudden rain leap from the surface;

有人轉工轉車，頻頻更換證件相；

someone changes jobs, changes buses, changes ID photos;

有人把舊銅像磨出了光；

someone shines an old bronze statue;

有人掀起一段鐵路尋找一粒草芥；

someone hoists a section of railway, searching for grass seed;

有人在紅布包上畫臉，星星點點；

someone draws faces on a red-cloth bag; they scatter like stars;

有人深呼吸，被大霧淹斃；

someone takes a deep breath in dense fog, drowning;

有人傾囊而出，放煙花叢叢；

someone empties his wallet for bouquets of fireworks;

有人乘興遊山從此不見；

on an impulse, someone roams the mountain and vanishes forever;

有人垂釣，因為一個夢而升官；

someone fishing gets promoted in a dream;

有人赤條條來去，大雪落滿身；

someone born with nothing dies with nothing, drifts over with snow;

有人捕獲了雷公打算作為佳餚；

someone pickles the thunder god for a tasty dish;

有人興建了樂園，表演舔刀刃；

someone builds a paradise, licking the knife edge in performance;

有人下煤窯四個月，得小說一篇；

in a coal mine, someone descends four months, rises with a short story;

有人要在臨汾興建天安門；

someone longs to build a Tiananmen in Linfen;

有人甘掏五萬與史瓦辛格進餐；

someone will pay fifty thousand to have dinner with Schwarzenegger;

有人為藝術隆胸并拒絕富商出價五百萬；

someone with breast implants refuses a rich man’s bid of 5 million;

有人戴黑紗到政府總部上班；

someone at government headquarters wears a black veil to work;

有人把自己當飛機把蝴蝶結當螺旋槳；

someone thinks he’s an airplane, his bow tie the propeller;

有人摸黑掄斧，不惜自傷；

someone feels in the dark for an axe, careless his swings will gash himself;

有人晝闖銀行，得鏽鏡一枚；

someone breaks into a bank in daylight, steals only a tarnished mirror;

有人恩愛後翻臉，出示警官證；

someone falls in love then falls out, showing his police badge;

有人瞎眼攀上通天藤；

someone blind climbs a vine that leads to heaven;

有人在暴雨中酌酒獨飲；

in a rainstorm, someone drinks alone, pouring his own wine;

有人辭官歸故里；

someone resigns from a high position and goes home;

有人漏夜趕科場；

someone hurries overnight to the imperial exam;

有人，在火焰裏捉迷藏，

someone plays hide and seek amid flames;

全都，在火焰裏捉迷藏，

everyone plays hide and seek amid flames;

一個兵、一個賊，一個賊、一個兵……

the soldier, the thief; the thief, the soldier.

夢裏不知風吹血，醒來方覺梟噬心。

A dream. Wind howls blood, oblivion. Wake to gnawing at the heart.