2014-02-23更生日報四方週刊

一出生，人便義無反顧地邁向死亡。
　所以人一生都在旅途上。
　「那是天生註定的」，誰都無以逃免。
　旅途，有平坦順遂的，有崎嶇不平的。
　旅途上，人人酸甜苦辣備嚐。
　儘管走得氣喘如牛，汗流浹背，還是要走。
　
　「越走，背越駝
　越走，髮越白
　越走，視越茫
　越走，體越衰
　最後呢？……　
還是要走……」
　
　旅途中，有許多門。走過一扇門，又有一扇門。
　門，門呀門門門……。
　我們總走在門和門之間。
　直到死亡，另一扇門又在眼前。
　再過去呢？
　未來茫茫。未來的事，誰知道？
　　　
　但是，肉體雖死亡，還是有人會活著的。
　
　不走不行。這是天生註定的。
　走吧！向前走……。
　走吧！走在旅途上……。

2/23許其正按:此文為拙作詩集"旅途上"序文.該詩集將於3月由環球文化出版社出版,中英對照,除作者及英譯者簡介和序文外,收詩56首,計155頁,由天津師範大學翻譯研究所所長,外國語學院教授英譯.本序文英譯如后:

Be Born to Be En Route

— Preface to En Route

By Hsu Chicheng

Once born, we are heading toward death without turning back.

Therefore we are en route all our life.

“It is doomed by fate”, and nobody can escape it.

The journey may be plain, or may be rugged.

En route, everybody tastes the joys and sorrows of life.

Though like an ox, sweating and exhausted, still going forward.

“With walking, more hunchbacked

With walking, hair more gray

With walking, sight more blurry

With walking, body more weakened

Eventually? ...

Still going forward …”

En route, there are a lot of doors. One, after another.

Door, door, and door after door …

We are walking between a door and another door.

Until death, another door is before us.

Then again?

Dim and distant is the future. And things in the future, who knows?

Yet, mortal is the body, some people are still living.

Irresistible is the walking. It is born to be so.

Let’s go, forward …

Let’s go, en route …