我问过护士,我说,我喜欢写诗,这些老人的事可否写诗?她説,你可以写,但不要提名字。那当然,我不会提名字的,甚至我的诗根本就不会提老人二字。
Waiting for
David Du
You lie on the bed and someone tells me
You haven’t eaten anything for almost a week.
I understand you are waiting for
What…what are you waiting for
I ask myself?
Actually I understand what are you waiting for–
You are waiting for the time!
Everybody is waiting for their own time!
And right now time for you is like leptonema,
You probably understand you will go and never
Come back here again.
I watch you and wait for time to bring you the way
That you had passed before.
Although I don’t know you,
I make a decision to clean your body, let your time bring you Your journey.
其实我们每个人都在等待属于自己的时间,这个时间是一期生命的开始也是另一期生命的终止。所以,从这个意义上看,我们都是在时间旅行,没有生死,也没有生死灭。就像世尊在心经中所言。所以,我这首诗是这样写我在工作第一周送走一位老人的感受的!我和当地人交流过我对人性的感受,其实不是我的感受,是佛的感受。即是没有生也没有死,没有有也没有无,一切全是因缘!