野鹅
你不必善良。
不必跪行
一百英里,穿过荒凉的忏悔。
你只要让你温柔的身体
爱它所爱的。
告诉我,你的绝望,而我将告诉你我的。
同时世界继续。
同时太阳和雨清澈的鹅卵石
正在穿越风景,
越过大草原,幽深的树林,
山脉和河流。
同时野鹅,在洁净蔚蓝的高空,
正再次飞回家乡。
无论你是谁,无论多么孤独,
世界为你提供了想象,
召唤你,像野鹅那样,严厉并充满激情——
反复宣告
你在万物中的位置。
Wild Geese
by Mary Oliver
You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees
for a hundred miles through the desert repenting.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body
love what it loves.
Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine.
Meanwhile the world goes on.
Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain
are moving across the landscapes,
over the prairies and the deep trees,
the mountains and the rivers.
Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air,
are heading home again.
Whoever you are, no matter how lonely,
the world offers itself to your imagination,
calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting --
over and over announcing your place
in the family of things.