Cui Yuwei 32#--"Mother"

Cui Yuwei 32#--"Mother"

Mother

Written and self-translated into Chinese by Cui Yuwei

We sat at dusk.
On the pebble walk we saw a child
toddling,
his watery lips shimmering in the westering sun.
A slim shadow of his little figure
fell like a petal
on my feet.
I heard the lines she said:
One day when I’m too sick to speak,
or kill myself,
I want a lethal injection to end it.

Slowly descended these words,
as light as feathers;
they brushed by my leg,
twirled to the soil,
as if expecting no one to listen.

《媽媽》

我們坐在黃昏裏

看著石路上的壹個孩子

蹣跚學步

濕濕的嘴唇在夕陽下閃光

他的影子

像細小的花瓣

落在我腳上

她對我說：

等我病得說不出話

又死不了的那天

給我打壹針吧

這些話輕如羽毛

墜落時

擦過我的腿

輾轉入泥

像不期待

誰的傾聽