我回來了，現在來講一下我漂泊在外的教訓：

Returned to tell of the larger world,

I rode the wind north and south beside the great river,

「我就像風一樣走遍了大江南北，

houses desolate as if the saints had all vanished,

我看見人們的房子散發著聖者已逝的氣息，

people’s brains dwindled by trivia

他們被外在的事物耗盡的腦汁，

to dead twigs, dark as coughed-up blood.

猶如落葉吐在運河上的血。」

Death cannot humble them,

「死亡也沒有辦法把他們變得謙卑，腳踏實地，

nor set their feet upon the earth

我看見怨恨給人們的臉上帶去的不祥和尖刻，

while spite casts dark rancor across their faces.

衰微的城墻難以再傳達竹林的迴響，

Behind the walls of the crumbling city

人們在獄中吃喝拉撒，目光不超過眼前三寸。」

one cannot hear the whispers of bamboo.

People eat, drink, shit, and piss imprisoned, seeing only

「沒有悲痛的能力，也沒有歡樂的能力，

three inches from their nose.

我們把土地，也就是靈魂，丟了。

唉，真悲慘，我們的處境就像是廣漠荒野上的孤魂，

Compassion’s lost with joy,

被風聲吹到這兒，吹到那兒，彼此仇恨，忌妒……」

our land lost with our spirits.

We’re miserable, lonely ghosts

「我已遺忘了落日的光輝和它的陰影，

roaming a vast wilderness,

我已遺忘了臭水河和破損的墻頭也是我的化身。

blown here, blown there,

因為我一看見她們就痛苦，

hating each other, envying.

我遺忘了，我們本是一棵樹上兩片對稱的葉子。」

I’ve forgotten the radiance of sunset amid shadows,

「我們用了太多精力來對抗暴戾，

forgotten the pungent rivers, these walls, broken like us,

忘記了自身美德的建立，目光呆滯，

painful to behold. Forgotten

還有一些喪失了戒律，又乾又硬……

we were leaves once, paired on a single tree.

星光呀！請快快刺破這一切在我心中形成的淤血。」

So much life spent under cruelty, tyranny,

our gaze gone blank, our virtue famished.

Strayed from the path, so many souls dried hard.

Pierce, sharp stars, these bloodclots in my heart.