《我以為我贏了》/魯米

只因一時受騙，我愛上了

不該親近的東西。

現在燭光都滅了，

酒都喝光了，我眼睛也

快合上了，愛者也都走光了。

我以為我贏了，連本帶利。

但其實我輸了。

向我祈禱的人滿嘴挖苦，

沖昏了頭腦。

與屈服者共處片刻，

是多麼棒的體驗啊。

別人只會轉過頭，

一臉不屑地走開。

我認識飛翔於虛無之地的鴿子，

不食穀物的鳥兒，

和撕碎布料做成精美衣服的裁縫。

肖林振/譯

I have been tricked by flying too close

to what I thought I loved.

Now the candleflame is out, the wine spilled,

and the lovers have withdrawn

somewhere beyond my squinting.

The amount I thought Id won, Ive lost.

My prayers becomes bitter and all about blindness.

How wonderful it was to be for a while

with those who surrender.

Others only turn their faces on way,

then another, like pigeon in flight.

I have known pigeons who fly in a nowhere,

and birds that eat grainlessness,

and tailor who sew beautiful clothes

by tearing them to pieces.

(Mathnawi, V. 346-353) Like This,

Rumi, Coleman Barks, Maypop Books