D156: 快乐日记

有时 大卫.怀特

有时候

你需要小心翼翼地穿越丛林，

就像小说里面的行者一样；

踏过层层的落叶却悄无声息，

来到丛林的尽头；

在这里等待着你的是各种各样的无名烦扰，

纷繁复杂，

乱人心神。

就是从此地出发，

你将会发现整个世界；

你倾听丛林的呼唤，

放下手头的事务，

暂停行进的脚步，

你要回答内心的问题，

这些问题已经等待良久，

却无从回避。

如果你找到真正的答案，

人生将更加丰盈。

Sometimes

if you move carefully

through the forest

breathing

like the ones

in the old stories

who could cross

a shimmering bed of dry leaves

without a sound,

you come

to a place

whose only task

is to trouble you

with tiny

but frightening requests

conceived out of nowhere

but in this place

beginning to lead everywhere.

Requests to stop what

you are doing right now,

and

to stop what you

are becoming

while you do it,

questions

that can make

or unmake

a life,

questions

that have patiently

waited for you,

questions

that have no right

to go away.