余光中之《今生今世——母親日之一》

今生今世

我最忘情的哭聲有兩次

一次，在我生命的開始

一次，在你生命的告終

第一次，我不會記得，是聽你說的

第二次，你不會曉得，我說也沒用

但這兩次哭聲的中間

有無窮無盡的笑聲

一遍一遍又一遍

回蕩了整整30年

你都曉得，我都記得

All Throughout This My Life: To Mother

Yu Guangzhong

All throughout this my life

Twice in abandon did I cry.

Once, when my life began;

The other, when yours ended.

The first time, I couldn’t remember but heard from you.

The second, you wouldn’t know even if I told.

Yet all between these two cries

Long our laughter kept ringing

Again and again and again,

Ringing for fully thirty years.

This surely you did not know

And surely I can’t forget.

（余光中 譯）