Birthmark    Hsu ChiCheng

I have been washing you

All my life

However, I am unable to wash you off

No matter how hard I do

Even using the best detergent

Even I try my best to wash

I am still unable to wash you off

Oh, I have come to know

The birthmark was born together with me

Whether it is beautiful or ugly

I am I still

I am always I

I will insist it all my life

And won’t change even a bit

Even meeting more hardships…

The Second Genesis   An Anthology of Contempary World Poetry  2014/5

中文原詩如后:

     胎記    許其正

洗了一生

刷了一生

怎麼洗怎麼刷

都洗不掉刷不掉

即使用最好的洗潔劑

仍然對它動彈不得

原來胎記之於我

與生俱來，根深柢固

是美也好，是醜也罷

我就是我

我永遠是我

終身堅持到底

絕不稍有改變

哪怕風雨再大……

(5/29其正按:該當代世界詩選係印度A.R.A.W.LII出版,精裝,545頁,收世界59國家重要詩人149位的詩作,並附作者簡介,為全英文版.台灣僅拙作兩首被選入.)