許其正：晚景

那個白髮蒼蒼的老人

一步一步地走著

時而停下來捶著背

當他走過一個汽車維修店時

正好聽到一個維修工人

指著一個舊輪胎向汽車主人說：

「這輪胎用太久了

彈性幾乎沒有了

該報廢換新了。」

那老人繼續走著

自覺一步一步走在

黃昏的暮色和冷冷的冰雪裡

「不，我要振作起精神來！」

他自語著，再次捶了一下背

彷彿要把辛酸歲月捶掉

把廢輪胎的彈性捶回來

An Evening Scene　　Hsu ChiCheng

The gray-haired old man

Is walking from a step to another step

He stops now and then to pound his back

When he comes to a car maintenance shop

He hears a maintenance worker saying

While pointing to a used tyre:

“The tyre is too old

To have any elasticity

It shall be rejected for a new one.”

The old man walks on

Feeling to be walking from step to step

In the gloom of dusk and the cold ice & snow

“No, I will brace myself up!”

He murmurs, and pounds his back again

As if to pound off the bitter years

To recover elasticity of the old tyre

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