《Afterland》"当生活难憾于我们，山峰也会升起"

When the Mountains Rose Beneath Us, We Became the Valley.

当山峰在我们脚下升起，我们便成了山谷。

Father,

父亲，

I wont ask why the saola came to you, or of the poacher who followed, but I ask of the country you lost, the one I never had.

我不问苏拉和紧随其后的猎手因何而来，但我想问问你已经失去的国度，那个我未曾拥有的故乡。

Unlike the midwife who sketched birth maps on a girls body and found a rainforest in her belly, I ask why a body is born to save money but cant pay to cross hells ferry, or why snow tells us heaven is cold.

不像助产士，她已经在女孩的身体里画出了生命的地图，在女孩的腹中发现了热带雨林。但我想问为什么我们终其一生积攒的财富，却无法支付一艘能够穿越地狱的渡船。或者说，为什么天堂寒冷冰雪在飞。

As a sunken missile maddens with radiation, lighting up the eyes of a tribesman witnessing it for the first time. How did an ancient boy drown in a homeless river? I ask why the war-sick warrior who hunts with claws is hiding a poem. A piece of paper hides a garden.

一个部落男子第一次亲眼目睹一颗炸弹狂怒坠落，火光如烟花般绽放。一个沧桑男孩在一条无家可归的河流溺亡。我想问用爪子狩猎的战士为何一直心藏诗歌，就像一张白纸藏着一座花园。

What harrowed you most arriving at the last minute to catch your brothers final breath on the hospital bed? Can a unicorn kindle the night, haloed by its flame, torches jutting from its head?

在最后一刻，赶到奄奄一息的哥哥病床前的你，痛苦不堪。一只独角兽就可以点燃寒夜。举过头顶的火把，散发着圣光。

You ask me how Ive saved us. Ask me to build our temples, so rooted, so stone, we wont ever die out.

你问我如何拯救族人。一切都源于这不变的信念：必须活下去！拼出我的所有去建立我们坚不可摧的神殿，我们的生命将永远不亡！

作者：Mai Der Vang

翻译：吴玉荣