We make a mark on space, a scratch on sand,
我们在空间里画线,在沙土上留痕,
A gesture in the void, and call it Time;
在虚空中做一个手势,然后把它叫做“时间”;
As though our times lay not in some dark hand,
就好像我们的时间并非掌握在黑暗的手中,
As though life moved to reason or to rhyme.
就好像生命的运动中包含着理性和韵律。