A person protests to fate:

有个人抗议命运：

"The things you have caused

“你惹得我

me most to want

特别想要

are those that furthest elude me."

那些最令我抓不住的东西。”

Fate nods.

命运点头。

Fate is sympathetic.

命运挺有同情心。

To tie the shoes, button a shirt,

系鞋带，扣衬衫，

are triumphs

只对小小孩

for only the very young,

或老人而言，

the very old.

才可称为胜利。

During the long middle:

两者漫长的中间：

conjugating a rivet

让铆钉合辙、

mastering tango

把探戈跳好、

training the cat to stay off the table

训练猫咪不上桌、

preserving a single moment longer than this one

保留住每一个长于此刻的时刻

continuing to wake whatever has happened the day before

继续唤醒前一天发生的事，

and the penmanships love practices inside the body.

而书法之道乐于在体内练习。