Dad, Time for Supper    Hsu ChiCheng

It is evening

Time for supper

The food is ready

And I go out to call dad for supper

Walking and shouting:

“Dad, time for supper!”

He is always busy

So busy to forget his supper

Each time he has to be called back

I and my calling

Through boundless darkness

Searching in all directions …

But, I fail to find him

Nor do I get his reply

Where is he?

Later, I come across a person

Who encounters me in darkness

He tells me: my dad is gone, never to be back

How so?

My dad is gone? Never to be back?

I burst into tears

Poems of the World Volume 19#1

附中文原詩如后:

    爸，回家吃飯    許其正

是傍晚時候

要吃晚飯了

飯菜已備就

我往後院去喊父親吃飯

我邊走邊大聲地喊：

「爸，回家吃飯！」

他總是兀自忙著

常常忙得忘了吃飯

每次要被喊才會回來

我和我的喊叫聲音

穿過黑暗的空間

向四面八方搜尋……

可是，我找不到他

也沒有得到他的回應

他哪裡去了？

然後，我碰到了一個人

他在黑暗中和我相遇

告訴我，父親走了，不回來了

這是怎麼回事？

父親走了？不回來了？

我一下哭了