美诗中英文对照鉴赏：Love after Love

Love after Love

by Derek Walcott

爱复爱 德里克·沃尔科特

The time will come

这样的时刻将会来临：

when, with elation

你得意洋洋地

you will greet yourself arriving at your own door,

站在自家门口，

in your own mirror

照着镜子,迎接自我的到来

and each will smile at the other's welcome,

以微笑欢迎彼此，

and say, sit here. Eat.

并说道，坐这儿。吃吧。

You will love again the stranger who was your self.

你将会再次爱上这个陌生人—从前的自己。

Give wine. Give bread. Give back your heart to itself,

斟满美酒，递上面包，把心交还其身，

to the stranger who has loved you all your life,

给那一辈子爱着你的陌生人。

whom you ignored for another,

你曾因为他人而忽略了他，

who knows you by heart.

他却打心底里懂你。

Take down the love letters from the bookshelf,

从书架上取下那些情书、

the photographs, the desperate notes,

照片以及绝望的字条，

peel your own image from the mirror.

从镜中剥去自己的形象。

Sit. Feast on your life.

坐下。尽享你的生活。