Missing You 想你 · 筱思

本期主播: 筱思本期文章：Missing You录制地点：北京 天津爆炸，陕西山阳泥石流山体滑坡，北京三里屯砍人事件….生命的戛然而止总会让人忍不住唏嘘感慨，明天和意外，不知道哪个会先到来。或许，我们能想到最踏实的温暖，就是在末日之前遇见你，能让我为爱所累，甘之如饴；身心俱疲，死得其所。今天，筱思想要读给大家的是一首来自英国诗人Penelope Shuttle的诗Missing You，诗人以第一人称的口吻诉说了自己对已故爱人深深的思念之情。全诗共21小节，文字质朴，感情真挚，每句表白都温柔有力，直戳泪点。筱思节选其中的8小节送给大家，希望各位喜欢。Missing you By Penelope Shuttle1.This year no-one will ask how you voted,or if you know the way to townNo-one will call you as an eye-witness or teach you how to train a bird of preyNo-one will bring you your New Scientist,try to sell you double-glazing or tell you their secretsPeople will write to youbut you won’t answer their lettersThe high sheriff of mistletoe will never catch your eye againNo-one will peel apples for you,or love you more than you can bearNo-one will forget you2I wept in Tesco,Sainsburys and in Bootswhere they gave me medicine for griefBut I wept in Asda,in Woolworths and in the library where they gave me books on griefI wept in Clarks looking in vain for shoes that would stop me weepingI wept on the peace Marchand all through the warI wept in Superdrug where they gave me a free box of tissuesI wept in the churches,the empty empty churches,and in the House of Commons –they voted me out of office3I can’t cry anyone’s tears except my own,can’t teach anything but my own ignoranceI can only fall from my own mountain,ledge by ledgeI can’t rival the wasp’s sting or sew except with my needleLike a saltwater wife,I prise open the oyster of my loss,hoick out the pearl of your death10I make my home in your absence,take your smallest hopeand make it growI wake to the dusk of everywhereas if assisting at my own birthor arriving in a countrywhere all the rivers settle down to be ice11World was one word I could not guess itWorld was one gestureI could not copy itWorld was one questionI couldn’t answer itWorld was one songHow could I sing it?World was one forestI couldn’t fell itWorld was one bridgeHow was I to cross it?16Think of meas a small backward countryappealing for aid from the far-off first worldImagine the dirt of my shrines,the riddle of my dry rivers,the jinx of my citiesWhen you hold the full purse of Autumn or celebrate the nativity of a pear,picture me as the hawk of Spring,a one-pupil school,the safe-keeper of sunriseThink of me without you,stuck here forever between rainless May and the drought of June17Your name didn’t change after your death –many others also answered to itAfter your death the climate didn’t change,the government stayed calmWaterfallsremembered you forever,remaining loyal,looking for you everywhere,storm after storm, teacup after teacup21I’ve lived with your death for a year,that despot death, that realist,stunned,as if I’ve just given birth to a foal,or made an enemy of the rainAll at onceyou had more important things to do than to liveDeath is the feather in your cap,the source of your fame,my darkest lessonThis dropout year closes,I begin my second year without you,just me and the paper-thin world.垫乐：David Davidson - And I Love You SoDavid Davidson - A Time For UsBetween Worlds主播：筱思；制作: 潇雨；发行：永清文字及垫乐归作者或版权方所有图片源于网络为你读英语美文，Read English for You微信公众号：为你读英语美文官方新浪微博：@为你读英语美文荔枝FM 搜索【为你读英语美文】收听