许其正：晚景

那个白发苍苍的老人

一步一步地走着

时而停下来捶着背

当他走过一个汽车维修店时

正好听到一个维修工人

指着一个旧轮胎向汽车主人说：

“这轮胎用太久了

弹性几乎没有了

该报废换新了。”

那老人继续走着

自觉一步一步走在

黄昏的暮色和冷冷的冰雪里

“不，我要振作起精神来！”

他自语着，再次捶了一下背

仿佛要把辛酸岁月捶掉

把废轮胎的弹性捶回来

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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