致橡树

致榆树

我如果爱你

if I love you

绝不学攀缘的凌霄花

I won't wind onup you like a trumpet creeper

借你的高枝炫耀自己

upvalue myself by your height

我如果爱你

if I love you

绝不学痴情的鸟儿

I will never follow a spoony bird

为绿茵重复单调的歌曲

repeating the monotone song for the green shade

也不止像源泉

not only like a spring head

常年送来清凉的慰藉

brings you clean coolness whole year long

也不止像险峰

not only like a steepy peak

增加你的高度

enhance your height

衬托你的威仪

sets off your straightness

不，这些都还不够

No, all these are not enough

我必须是你近旁的一株木槿

I must be a ceiba by your side

作为树的形象和你站在一起

as a tree standing together with you

根，紧握在地下

our roots melt underneath

叶，相融在云里

our leaves merge in clouds

每一阵风吹过

when wind dreezes

我们都互相致意

we greet each other

但没有人

but no one

听懂我们的语言

can understand our peculiar words

你有你的铜枝铁干

you have your strong stem and branches

像刀，像剑

like knives and swords

也想戟

and like halberds

我有我的红硕花朵

I have my red ample flowers

像沉重的叹息

like heavy sighs

又像英雄的火炬

and heroic torches as well

我们分担寒潮，风雷，霹雳

we partake cold tide，thunder storm， firebolt

我们共享雾霭，流岚，霓虹

together we share brume， flowing mist， rainbow

仿佛永远分离

as if we separate all the time

却又终身相依

actually we forever rely on each other