Morning Prayer of Trees    Hsu ChiCheng

Good morning, oh, God

I am a tree

Please listen to my heartfelt prayer:

The darkness has passed

Morning rays begin to appear

Please let the sun rise up

I need sunshine to make oxygen

With which to save the lives of human beings

They are the type who make waste gas

While doing exercise in the park

They make it with their body

From their mouths, nostrils, buttocks, and skin

It is released

The earth is polluted, and they themselves are polluted

This is not so serious

In other places, either near or far

There are factories run by them

To burn timnber, fuel, and coal

Heavy lampblack and waste gas from chimneys

Bing more danger

In addition to their unpleasant smell

There are various poisonous gases

Everywhere is a foul atmosphere

To let animals, plants, even themselves poisonously

To drive myriads of beings and themselves to death’s door

Please forgive them!

Perhaps they do not know it

Perhaps they have their own worries and troubles

In order to fill their own stomachs?

In order to make more wealth?

In order to strengthen their power?

For all that

They are too piteous

Striving for existence, for power, for wealth

By hook or by crook, doing whatever they think is right

Irrespective of other families, even killing their own kind

Please forgive them!

They have their own worries and troubles

They do not know what they are doing

Please take pity on them!

Please let the sun rise up

I need sunshine to make oxygen

With which to save their lives

They lack conscious awareness, and they do not press for it

But I worry more than them!

Please listen to my heartfelt prayer!

I am a tree

Oh God, thank you!

2015/5  World Poetry Year Book 2014

Poems of the World Autumn 2015 Volume20#2

中文原詩如后:

        樹的晨禱    許其正

早安，神啊

我是樹

請垂聽我由衷的祈禱：

暗夜已經過去

晨曦已經隱約初現

請太陽趕緊升上來吧

我需要太陽的光來製造氧氣

他們人類正有待於氧氣來救命呢

他們是製造廢氣的族類

在這公園裡運動的他們

用他們的身體製造

從他們的嘴巴、鼻孔、屁股、皮膚

釋放出來

污染大地，污染他們自己

這還不甚嚴重

在別的地方，或遠或近

有他們經營的工廠

燃燒木材，燃燒油料，燃燒煤炭

從煙囪冒出濃濃的油煙、廢氣

那些更是不得了

除了臭而外

還有各種有毒的氣體

弄得到處烏煙瘴氣

毒害動物、植物，甚至他們自己

讓萬物和他們自己奄奄一息

原諒他們吧！

他們或許不自知

他們或許有他們的苦衷

為了餵飽他們的肚子？

為了賺取更多的財富？

為了擴張自己的勢力？

不必去管那麼多

他們是太可憐了

爭生存，爭權力，爭錢財

不擇手段，無所不為

不顧其他族類，甚至戕害自己

原諒他們吧

他們有他們不得已的苦衷

他們所做的他們不知道

可憐可憐他們吧！

請太陽趕快升上來

我需要太陽的光來製造氧氣

他們正有待於那些氧氣來救命呢

雖則他們沒有自覺，不請求

我比他們更急呢！

請垂聽我由衷的祈禱吧！

我是樹

神啊，感謝您！