Tell yourself

天气变冷，

as it gets cold and gray falls from the air

暗淡从空中降落

that you will go on

你告戒自己，

walking, hearing

继续前行

the same tune no matter where

你发现，不管在哪里

you find yourself—

你听到的必是同一首曲子

inside the dome of dark

在黑夜的苍穹，抑或

or under the cracking white

在雪山狭谷里

of the moon's gaze in a valley of snow.

在银色月光的凝视下

Tonight as it gets cold

今晚的天气在变冷

tell yourself

你告戒自己

what you know which is nothing

仍是那同一首曲子

but the tune your bones play

只有爬涉时骨头的声响

as you keep going. And you will be able

别的，什么也没有

for once to lie down under the small fire

可能有一天

of winter stars.

你终将在冬夜的星光下

And if it happens that you cannot

在它微弱的火焰下，倒下

go on or turn back

假如那一天来临

and you find yourself

你会发现自己已走到尽头

where you will be at the end,

不能前行，也无力返回

tell yourself

这时，你告诉自己

in that final flowing of cold through your limbs

——爱自己的一切吧

that you love what you are.

最后的一股寒流穿过你的四肢