We have bent to love

我们俯身去爱

as a twig bends

如嫩枝俯就

to the weight of a leaf.

一枚叶子的重量。

Together

我们一起

we have felt the brush of wind,

感受了风的轻拂，

learned where ripples

体察涟漪在卵石下

breathe under boulders,

何处呼吸，

listened for sounds

倾听一片森林

of a forest growing.

成长的声音。

From the heat of fire,

从烈火的热，

the cold of stone,

到岩石的冷，

fire and stone, stone and fire;

烈火岩石，岩石烈火；

birth and death, death and rebirth,

生而死，死而复生，

has grown this forest--

长出这片森林——

has grown this love.

长出了这爱。

And from the bending

从俯就

to the weight of a leaf.

一枚叶子的重量。