All Throughout This My Life: To Mother

余光中·《今生今世——母难日之一》

作者/余光中

All throughout this my life

Twice in abandon did I cry.

Once, when my life began;

The other, when yours ended.

The first time, I couldn’t remember butheard from you.

The second, you wouldn’t know even if Itold.

Yet all between these two cries

Long our laughter kept ringing

Again and again and again,

Ringing for fully thirty years.

This surely you did not know

And surely I can’t forget.

我最忘情的哭声有两次

一次，在我生命的开始

一次，在你生命的告终

第一次，我不会记得，是听你说的

第二次，你不会晓得，我说也没用

但这两次哭声的中间

有无穷无尽的笑声

一遍一遍又一遍

回荡了整整30年

你都晓得，我都记得

（余光中 译）