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五月微風 - 無語之歌

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Always the years between us. Always the years. Always the love. Always the hours.
 
                                                               The Hours, by Michael Cunningham
 
離開十幾天,歸來豁然竟已是另一季。時差所帶來的恍惚中,有夢的錯覺。究竟是剛剛從夢中愣忡醒來,抑或是不小心又步入了另一夢境?
 
那迎麵帶著些許涼意的五月怡人的微風,那些新綠的樹,那些人家屋前亭亭的鬱金香,分明是在訴說著什麽,可是一切卻又是那麽靜靜的,沉默無語,相對於夢的另一端。
 
夢的另一端,是的,跨越太平洋的另一端。炎熱,潮濕,嘈雜,南方的夏季過早的顯示著它的威力,城市的喧囂繁忙中生命似乎可以輕易地被帶走,掩蓋,不著痕跡。紅樓夢中寶玉愛說的話是,恨不能死了化成灰了,煙了,讓女孩子們明白他的心。人死了,也真的是轉瞬間灰飛煙滅。任再怎麽強大魁梧的一個人,也就是那麽個小小骨灰盒裝著了。 生命被帶走了,靈魂還在嗎?能量是守恒的,那麽就真的是你中有我,我中有你了,甚至於那些花兒草兒裏也不定有我們哪一世的靈魂。 那些關於前世今生的傳說,不知該不該相信是真的。也許當麵對死亡的時候,人們情願相信有靈魂,而不願去麵對虛無。甚至連無神論的醫生們也鼓勵垂危的病人皈依某種宗教,以幫助他們麵對死亡的痛苦。

Virginia Woolf said in "The Hours" : 

Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more. It's contrast.

隻有那些漫山遍野的黃花,不甘寂寞地燦爛著,提醒著我,此處不是夢的另一端。此處又到了“滿城盡帶黃金甲”的季節,隻是此黃花非彼黃花。記得初到加國,就曾經被這些鋪天蓋地的蒲公英所擊中。童年關於北方的記憶因了這些小小的黃花而蘇醒,仍記得當時的那份欣喜。可是不久後在ESL課堂上就聽到那個慈祥的老太太用深惡痛絕的語氣教新移民們如何徹底鏟除這種小黃花。當時別提有多震驚了。生命因為泛濫而不被珍視,甚至被憎恨。同樣黃色的花,凡高的向日葵備受推崇,而蒲公英們何罪之有,卻受到如此的敵視。它們短暫的絢爛隻為其後漫天的蒲公英的種子隨著小小的降落傘播種天下。萬物的本性僅僅是為了繁衍後代啊。隻是人類把生存問題複雜化了,奢華享樂,舍本逐末,人類忘記了自己並不是任何生命的主宰,包括他們自己。
 
Always the hours...
 
The hours before any life, the hours after any life。生命如匆匆過客,在時空的長河裏穿行,代代相傳,生生不息。
 
 一些生命離去了,另一些生命降臨了。我穿梭奔忙於那個炎熱城市的不同醫院之間,見證著生與死的洗禮。五月的那個城市,巍然屹立在夢的另一端,沒有風,即使是微風也沒有。可是就在這絕對的靜默中,我分明聽到了一首無語的歌。

“We live our lives, do whatever we do, and then we sleep. It's as simple and ordinary as that. A few jump out windows, or drown themselves, or take pills; more die by accident; and most of us are slowly devoured by some disease, or, if we're very fortunate, by time itself. There's just this for consolation: an hour here or there when our lives seem, against all odds & expectations, to burst open & give us everything we've ever imagined, though everyone but children (and perhaps even they) know these hours will inevitably be followed by others, far darker and more difficult. Still, we cherish the city, the morning, we hope, more than anything for more. Heaven only knows why we love it so.