月的獨白
被太多的詩賦形、代言，
我正變成一首詩，
一首經常形變的詩，
一首會自言自語的詩。
有時詩體細如鉤，
有時詩體張如弓，
有時詩體圓如盤。
當被一小片烏雲遮住，
我就是給它鑲的銀邊,
是它的一線光明。
銀鉤，玉弓，或者銀盤，
無論以什麽形態示人，
我不會把背轉過來給人看。
一是因為暗箭難防。
想想後羿，
他一直懷疑我引誘了他妻子。
這家夥連太陽都敢射，
何況太陰乎？
二是怕被黑洞們當餅吃了，
盡管我的餡是石頭的。
它們什麽都吃，
有形的月餅，無形的光。
（我二者都沒有。）
三是背麵暗淡無光，
我怕有人罵我昏球。
我的確是球，
而且有些發昏。
（請保守這個秘密。）
四是為了禮貌。
把背和腚給人是幾個意思？
獨白豈不成了放那個氣？
又到一年中秋，
我能得到最多讚美的日子，
因為給人們帶來圓滿的希望，
他們會暫時忘了我也會喚起
對分離與殘缺的痛苦和失望。
在這一夜，見到那麽多
明珠在他們的眼角閃閃發光，
抬頭望向夜空的人該會看到
明月從他們的簷角揚帆起航。
我要走了，
天下哪有不散的宴，
好在我很快會回來，
並且月月如新，
月月有滿月的慶典。
走之前，問一聲，
說了這麽多，煩不煩？
畢竟，諾大的夜空裏
隻有我在獨白。
沒有回答。
隻有靜電的滋滋聲，
以及江河湖海的雪花屏。
有人在聽嗎
在聽嗎
聽嗎
聽
嗎
Shape of Moon
Shaped by so many poems,
I'm turning into a poem,
One that takes many shapes.
I start as a crescent
under Mary's feet
to uplift her glory.
Or as Kronos' scythe
to harvest grain.
Had he ever used it
to cut time short?
If you see the scythe of me
in the hand of the Grim Reaper,
run as fast as you can,unless you
want a body and soul separation.
When I'm a quarter moon,
half mercury, half dark matter,
I'm the art of balance.
I don't really want to be full,
at least not for more than a few days.
Realization of all the potential
and nowhere to go but down
is very very unfun.
One last shape to mention:
When a cloud covers me,
I'm its silver lining,
the light at the end of
its grief spreading.
Constantly changing,
but always returning.
I'm not under the Sun,
so I'm always a new thing.
I'm light, I'm darkness,
I'm happiness, I'm sorrow,
I'm love, I'm hatred.
When light waxes, darkness wanes.
When happiness waxes, sorrow wanes.
When love waxes, hatred wanes.
And vice versus.
Notes:
(1) The crescent under Mary’s feet: in Christian art, the Virgin Mary is often depicted standing on the crescent moon.
(2) KRONOS (Cronus) was the King of the Titanes, the god of time, and the father of Zeus in Greek mythology. He was usually depicted with a scythe for harvesting grain.
(3) Grim Reaper is a personification of death in the form of a cloaked skeleton wielding a large scythe that he uses to cut the last ties between soul and body when a person dies.
(© October 4, 2023, godog)
