Talk about China’s 60 birthday
星期四 十月 01, 2009 9:09 am
In your email, you mention the celebration;
dancing, singing and other activities preceding the important moment.
My fingers type the only word, "Nostalgia",
again and again from the east coast of the Pacific Ocean.
I hope to send it right now,
yet, the moon shines my blue passport,
the shore on the west end is too far to arrival.
Still I imagine hands raising with a solemn oath,
five stars flags fly freely with a leaping heart full of joy.
But here I merely can reply:
Absence is an enormous pain.
The returned friend says the events
are the same, stunning as before.
Her mood is cheered up even though she notices
the sky in Toronto is always clearer. No surprise.
The gray skyline is still dim under rows of red flags,
you choose that as the excuse for your absence.
Still, you wish to be the audience
who stand up for their motherland, and applaud
with happy feelings.
At that moment, they don't think of bad news of daily life,
the dropping line of stocks, and the pollution index in the air,
They applaud and applaud