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I heard all of these things, but I didn't listen.
這些事都經過了我的耳朵，可惜我沒有去仔細傾聽。
I looked but didn't see. I read, didn't understand.
我看了，但是沒看見。我讀了，可是沒理解。
I paid attention only when you began to vote and shout,
只有當你們去投票，去喊叫，只有當事情本身開始
and when your voting and shouting, when the substance of it, began to threaten me.
威脅到我自身的時候，我才會去注意到。
I listened only when you moved toward shattering continental unions and electing vulgar demagogues.
只有當你們前往各處大陸工會，當你們成為選舉煽動者的時候，我才會真正聽見。
Only then did your pain become of interest to me.
只有到那時候，你們的痛苦才能被我注意。
I know that feeling hurt is often prologue to dealing hurt.
我知道感到難受經常是解決問題序幕。
I wonder now if you would be less eager to deal it
我在想，若現在我和你們身處同一戰線，
if I had stood with you when you merely felt it.
而你僅僅是感覺到了，你們會因此就不想去處理它嗎？
I ask myself why I didn't stand with you then.
我質問自己，為什么沒有和你站在一起。
One reason is that I became entranced by the gurus of change,
一個原因是我著迷于改變，
became a worshiper of the religion of the new for novelty's sake,
為了創新成為新新事物理念，
and of globalization and open borders and kaleidoscopic diversity.
成為全球化和開放性，成為多樣性的擁護者。
Once change became my totalizing faith, I could be blind.
一旦“改變”成為了我的信仰，我就開始變得盲目。
