有个人抗议命运：

A person protests to fate:

“你惹得我

"The things you have caused

特别想要

me most to want

那些最令我抓不住的东西。”

are those that furthest elude me."

命运点头。

Fate nods.

命运挺有同情心。

Fate is sympathetic.

系鞋带，扣衬衫，

To tie the shoes, button a shirt,

只对小小孩

are triumphs

或老人而言，

for only the very young,

才可称为胜利。

the very old.

两者漫长的中间：

During the long middle:

让铆钉合辙、

conjugating a rivet

把探戈跳好、

mastering tango

训练猫咪不上桌、

training the cat to stay off the table

保留住每一个长于此刻的时刻

preserving a single moment longer than this one

继续唤醒前一天发生的事，

continuing to wake whatever has happened the day before

而书法之道乐于在体内练习。

and the penmanships love practices inside the body.