In sunset’s glow – Gu Cheng

In the evening's glow,

your lips tightly closed,

you say, "There are only fifteen minutes left,"

meaning the sorrow has already begun.

"We might be apart for ten or a hundred years;

we must be thousands, ten-thousand miles apart."

But then you smile playfully

showing your real age.

You say, "I forgot to say even the one sentence."

I say, "Yes, you seem to have forgotten that one sentence."

We never got around to that sentence all evening;

but before we'd noticed, anyway, the sun set in silence.

在夕光里，

你把嘴紧紧抿起：

"只有一刻钟了"

就是说 现在上演悲剧。

"要相隔十年 百年！"

"相距千里 万里！"

忽然你顽皮地一笑，

暴露了真实的年纪。

"话忘了一句。"

"嗯 肯定忘了一句。"

我们始终没有想出

太阳却已悄悄安息。