I Lost a Shoe My Mother Made

I lost a Shoe My Mother Made

                         

                            I lost a shoe my mother made,

                     A newly finished, beautifully made

                     Cloth shoe of reddish brown.

                     Many a day and many a night,

                     In fine stiches and an artist’s cut,

                     She worked with her loving heart.

 

                     I lost a shoe my mother made

                     Some forty years ago, on a spring day.

                     A school boy on his way home

                     Saw fishes spawning in a stream.

                     He plunged into the current,

                     Forgot the new pair he was wearing.

 

                     I lost a shoe my mother made.

                     The running water had carried it away.

                     The thousand stitches that once pinched

                     Her hands now are pinching my heart.

                     Old memory, sweet and little sad…

                     I lost a shoe my mother made.

僅以此詞懷念母親

西江月 鞋

 

童子輕歌路上，

一雙慈母工良。

溪溝春水捕魚忙，

丟了新鞋魂喪。

 

紮底頂箍指痛，

鑽心一手針傷。

千層厚底重重漿，

意在寒暑三往。