————Falling————

我在海德堡等日落。我盼望一場轟轟烈烈的日落，地平綫上一顆巨大的火紅色的半球體；余暉像燃燒殆盡而漫天飛舞的紙花，打在水面上，激起千波沸騰的浪花。

I was waiting for sunset in Heidelberg. I was yearning for a vigorous one, in all the thunder and fire and smoke, coming a great fiery hemisphere. I was yearning for an afterglow, which resembles thousands and thousands of paper flowers burning, flying and dancing above the water, steaming up waves and spindrifts.

可是我沒有見到。相反，我看見了寧靜的晚霞，千萬個躍動的金色光點，懶洋洋地灑向海德堡。船夫靠了岸，哼著小曲收拾回家。

But I didn't see that. What I did see, was the quiet and peaceful glow, in which millions of bright bouncing golden spots were glimmering, spilling and flowing over the entire Heidelberg. A boatman came ashore, humming a song of back home.

2024/12/13