街灯

Dry, still air
with a tinge of sweetness on my lip
the streetlight stands
at the end of the road,
sentinel
a watchful guardian for those
too young to protect themselves.

It follows me still
though different in form
aged and weathered and worn
but remaining the same orange light
a sodium vapor heart.

You are sanctuary
on cold nights and lonely hours
I can rest my head
on your luminous shoulder
the one moment this crushing world
seems to abate.

Rain and snow and choking ash
You remain, always vigilant
Your sodium glow never dimmed
even when the burnings winds of change
assail us from all sides and as the
little-deaths of doubt and remorse and insecurity
tear at our foundations like a pack of wolves
gnawing and gnashing and screaming ever so
quietly in our battered ears
while the world seems to decay around us
and the daytime seems so foreign
a thousand disembodied voices whispering
from unseen corners.

It was always you and me.
Always our copper veins and glass eyes and
sodium vapor hearts.
The streelight and the lone girl beneath it.
always, and forever.

干燥，空气凝静
将一丝甘甜自我的唇间裹挟
路灯伫立
在绝径，
当作哨兵
守望者
少不经事者，抵替的讬庇。

它仍旧跟行
以不同的修设
老旧，风化，磨折
但仍用一抹橘光
结成钠汽的心脏。

你是避难所
在茫茫的寒夜，在寂寥的时光
我垂头，依偎
在你辉华的肩膀
彼刻，世界的沉碎
也显出一份凋弱。

在雨、雪和窒息的灰烬下
你仍固执地，秉着警醒的傍瞻
你钠作的温光从未澹轻
即便摇曳变幻的狂风烬燃
从四面八方向我们搀袭，携
失了自我的猜疑，懊恼与惆怅
宛如群狼撕扯我们的根基
嚼齿穿龈地
低声嚎鸣在，我们保受摧戕的耳畔
当世界在周遭颓圮
顷刻，白天敛现陌生的痕迹
在耳边诵息的那一千种失魂落魄的声音
来自隐秘的角落。

这总也是我和你
总也是我们铜的脉搏和玻璃的眼睛，还有
钠汽的心。
是街灯与它脚下那个孤零零的女子。
总也如此，永远如此。