The Moment
Author: Margaret Atwood
The moment when, after many years
of hard work and a long voyage
you stand in the center of your room,
house, half-acre, square mile, island, country,
knowing at last how you got there,
and say, I own this
is the same moment when the trees unloose
their soft arms from around you,
the birds take back their language,
the cliffs fissure and collapse,
the air moves back from you like a wave
and you can't breathe.
No, they whisper. You own nothing.
You were a visitor, time after time
climbing the hill, planting the flag, proclaiming.
We never belonged to you.
You never found us.
It was always the other way round.
那一刻
作者 瑪格麗特·愛特伍
翻譯 舒己懷_Frank
那個(gè)時(shí)刻的你
經(jīng)歷了多年的艱苦奮斗
或許可以俯視自己房間
或許可俯視自己的房屋或土地，方圓幾里，私人島嶼财松，甚至國家
知曉自己如何最終達(dá)到這個(gè)地步
宣稱說母债，這都是我的資產(chǎn)
也在那一刻，曾經(jīng)擁抱你的樹木
打開其柔枝，撥開你的身軀
鳥兒也停止了歌唱
山崖也裂開而坍塌
空氣也如波浪一樣，從你四周退去
讓你不能再呼吸她.
不，他們彼此竊竊私語正卧。你什么都不擁有。
你無非是訪客跪解，一次次
爬上山坡炉旷，插上旗幟，宣揚(yáng)主權(quán)。
但我們從不都屬于你窘行。
你從未發(fā)現(xiàn)到我們骏啰。
而事實(shí)則是反了過來。
