A Poem: Summer Dementia 夏日失憶症

“Summer Dementia”

Nothing is meant to sustain

As no lesson would be gleaned

From others’ chains

Summer falsehood

Befalls

In the depths of night

Pitch black

Black and white

Everything fades in the end

Such as spears and swords of iron

And monuments made of ancient stone

When summer sneaks in

Lies fermenting

More lies sprouting

The world is never short of

Liars and thieves

And pregnancy brain

All men forget

First his name, age, and whereabouts

Then he loses his way home

He can’t pronounce his son’s name

He banishes himself

On the street

He paced all his life

Then he forgets everything

When June finally came

The town was deep in slumber

Some snore like machines

Some think aloud in their dreams

There are many others

Holding breath and heartbeat

Finally

The June dementia settles

soft and deep

The starkest pains

lullabied to sleep

(2025.06.01)

*自己寫的英文詩還是得自己譯成中文

「夏日失憶症」

沒什麼東西能永存

從別人的枷鎖中

也得不到什麼教訓

虛假的夏日

悄然降臨

在深夜的幽暗裡

漆黑一片

陰陽分明

一切終將消逝

像銅矛鐵劍

如遠古的石碑

夏天開始的時候

謊言開始發酵

更多謊言參與了欺騙

這世界從不缺

騙子與小偷

遺忘的腦霧

人總是會忘記的

先是名字、年齡、位置

然後忘了回家的路

想不起兒子叫什麼名字

自己流浪於街頭

在熟悉的巷弄一生踱步

最後

把一切都忘個乾淨

六月終於到來時

城市尚在酣睡中

有人呼嚕如機器轟鳴

有人在夢中暴露了心聲

還有更多人

屏住呼吸與心跳

等待逃生

最後

六月籠上了一層迷霧

輕忽又沈重

掩蓋著刺骨的痛

被搖籃曲哄入了夢

(2025年6月1日)