瑪麗的詩：當死亡來的時候
“當塵埃落定，我想說，我就是那個把一生嫁給了驚奇的新娘……”，這是瑪麗·奧利佛給自己做的最好的總結。帶著一顆永遠地好奇心，去不斷地探索，不斷地發現大自然的每一物種的美好和活著的規律。不是科學研究，而是哲學思索。
死神來的時候
死神來的時候
像秋天裏一隻饑餓的熊；
死神來的時候
拿出他的錢包，
掏出所有亮晃晃的金幣，
要買我，
然後啪的一聲關上了錢夾。
當死神像麻疹一樣來臨，
當死神像冰山一樣
在肩胛骨間出現。
帶著滿心的好奇，
我想走進這扇門，
想知道那黑暗的小屋裏
到底什麽樣？
由此，我把所有人
視之為手足情誼，
認為時間不過是一個概念，
而永恒隻是另一種可能；
我把每一個生命
都想成是一朵花，
一朵普通的雛菊，
都是這世界的唯一，
每一個名字
念出來都是令人舒暢的音符，
像所有的音樂一樣趨向寂靜，
每個人都有雄獅般的勇氣，
都是大地的珍寶。
當塵埃落定，
我想說，我就是那個
把這一生嫁給了驚奇的新娘；
也是把世界擁進懷裏的新郎。
當塵埃落定，
我不想知道
我的生命是不是特別，
是不是真實。
我也不想去找
自己的那些歎息，
恐懼，或是糾結。
我不想，到死的時候，
僅僅做了這世界的訪客。
When Death Comes
When death comes
like the hungry bear in autumn;
when death comes and
takes all the bright coins from his purse
to buy me, and snaps the purse shut;
when death comes
like the measles-pox;
when death comes
like an iceberg between the shoulder blades,
I want to step through the door
full of curiosity, wondering:
what is it going to be like,
that cottage of darkness?
And therefore I look upon everything
as a brotherhood and a sisterhood,
and I look upon time as no more than an idea,
and I consider eternity as another possibility,
and I think of each life as a flower,
as common as a field daisy,
and as singular,
and each name a comfortable music in the mouth
tending as all music does, toward silence,
and each body a lion of courage,
and something precious to the earth.
When it’s over, I want to say: all my life
I was a bride married to amazement.
I was the bridegroom,
taking the world into my arms.
When it is over, I don’t want to wonder
if I have made of my life something particular, and real.
I don’t want to find myself sighing and frightened,
or full of argument.
I don’t want to end up simply having visited this world.
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