IF YOU THINK WITH FIRE
Then life is a road that leads
To waiting for nothing.
On its two sides stand wonderful buildings,
Whose compound eyes brim and flow
With happy songs of great mansions,
And the melancholy of little round houses.
Then there sinks to the bottom
Of a trembling white jade cup
The broken necklace of the past,
Two pieces dazzling the eyes
With their red lustre –
July and March.
If the castle where my dreams are stored
Began to burn,
I would stand bewildered in the rain,
Watching one man,
And os wildly,
Thinking of another.
夐虹
Hsiung Hung (1940 – )