Ready

 

                     Ready 

 

                    By Jade 

 

 

A tall evergreen tree outside the window

branches intertwined 

young and old

 

He is no longer eating and drinking

doctors say hearing is the last sense to go

so I talked and talked, in his ear

 

Family members flew in 

funeral plans chosen

his favorite shirt to put on ironed

 

Dear God, why am I still not ready 

to let go of his hands, holding mine tightly right now

and for half a century?

 

Would the evergreen branches 

ever meet again, in the same tree, after 

dust to dust, ashes to ashes?

 

 

 

                August 21, 2019

 

 

 

 

 

 

          《準備好了》

 

 

             文/天朝玉

 

 

窗外立著一棵高大的常青樹

新舊枝叉交織纏繞在一起

 

他已經不能飲水進食了

醫生說聽力是最後消失的感知

所以 我在他的耳邊不停地說著話

 

家庭成員都從外州飛來了

殯葬計劃已經選好

他最喜歡穿的襯衫也熨燙好了

 

親愛的上帝，為什麽我還是沒有準備好

鬆開他的手？這雙手現在正緊緊抓住我的

半個世紀以來, 一直如此

 

當生命輪回，塵埃落定

那些常青樹枝還會在同一棵樹上

再次相遇嗎？

 

 

               

            二零一九年八月二十一日

 

 

 

 

 

 

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