「我全身痲瘋!」
你這一句話
沒有一絲怨嗟
只感到
你溫熱帶的陽光
使萬物努力成長
蒼翠立在
歷史的海洋中
你沒有因屈辱
早生白髮
颱風頻傳
地震不息
你獨臂
也能撐過多少苦難
你的清白
依然如處子的心
大家竟然
連你的名字也
不敢提
真的把你
當麻瘋病人一樣
因為你的名字
是:台灣!
76,3,28
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LEPROSY
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“I have leprosy all over my body”.
To say such a thing
you do not grumble at all.
We would rather feel that
your sunshine of a subtropical zone
has made all living things strive to grow.
To stand in the ocean of history, green and bright
yor do not grow premature gray hair owing to disgrace.
You can go through all sufferings with one arm
under frequent attacks of typhoon and the endless earthquakes.
Your innocence is still like the heart of a young lady.
However
no one dares to call your name
but treats you really like a person having leprosy
simply because your name happens to be
Taiwan!
March 28, 1987