總監修／星雲大師

母難日：矛盾世界

文／余光中（1928～）

快樂的世界

當初我們見面

妳迎我以微笑

而我答妳以大哭

驚天，動地



悲哀的世界

最後我們分手

我送妳以大哭

而妳答我以無言

關天，閉地



矛盾的世界啊

不論初見或永別

我總是對妳以大哭

哭世界始於妳一笑

而幸福終於妳閉目

──選自《余光中詩選》

Happy Was the World: To Mother

Yu Guangzhong (1928 - )

English translation: Yu Guangzhong



Happy was the world

Where, when first we met,

You greeted me with a smile,

And I answered with a cry

That move heaven and earth.



Sad was the world

Where, when at last we parted,

I saw you off with a cry,

And you answered with a silence

That closed heaven and earth.



Strange was the world

Where, seeing you first to last,

I always cried aloud

How with your smile the world began

And how without it bliss ended.

── from Yu Guangzhong Shixuan

(Selected Poems by Yu Guangzhong)