英漢對照

Everything Is Waiting for You

David Whyte
譯者　吳查理

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Your great mistake is to act the drama
as if you were alone. As if life
were a progressive and cunning crime
with no witness to the tiny hidden
transgressions. To feel abandoned is to deny
the intimacy of your surroundings.

你最大的誤解，
是把人生演成一齣只有自己一人的戲。

彷彿生命是一場逐步展開、精心策劃的罪行，
那些細微而隱密的越界，
從來沒有任何見證者。

感到自己被遺棄，
其實是否認了你與周遭世界之間的親密連結。

Surely,
even you, at times, have felt the grand array;
the swelling presence, and the chorus, crowding
out your solo voice.

然而，即使是你，
也必定曾在某些時刻感受到那浩大的陣列——
那逐漸充滿四周的存在，
那如合唱般湧現的聲音，
淹沒了你獨自歌唱的聲音。

You must note
the way the soap dish enables you,
or the window latch grants you freedom.
Alertness is the hidden discipline of familiarity.

你必須留意，
肥皂盒如何默默成全你的日常，
窗扣如何在輕輕一轉之間，
為你帶來自由。

覺察，
是藏在熟悉事物之中的隱密修習。

The stairs are your mentor of things
to come, the doors have always been there
to frighten you and invite you,
and the tiny speaker in the phone
is your dream-ladder to divinity.

樓梯，是即將到來之事的導師。

門一直都在那裡，
一面令你害怕，
一面邀請你走近。

而電話裡那枚小小的揚聲器，
則是你通往神聖的夢之梯。

Put down the weight of your aloneness and ease into the conversation.
The kettle is singing
even as it pours you a drink, the cooking pots
have left their arrogant aloofness and
seen the good in you at last.

放下那份孤身一人的重量吧，
輕輕走進這場對話。

水壺一邊為你倒出飲品，
一邊低聲歌唱。

鍋子也終於放下了傲慢的疏離，
看見了你身上的美好。

All the birds and creatures of the world
are unutterably themselves.
Everything is waiting for you.

世上的每一隻鳥、每一個生命，
都以言語無法形容的方式，完整地成為自己。

萬事萬物，都在等待著你。

Everything Is Waiting for You — David Whyte
中文翻譯：吳查理