【班門弄斧、越俎代庖】系列九十五 Wislawa Szymborska 《Cloud》試譯

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《Clouds》
(Translated by Stanislaw Baranczak and Clare Cavanagh)
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I’d have to be really quick
to describe clouds -
a split second’s enough
for them to start being something else.
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Their trademark:
they don’t repeat a single
shape, shade, pose, arrangement.
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Unburdened by memory of any kind,
they float easily over the facts.
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What on earth could they bear witness to?
They scatter whenever something happens.
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Compared to clouds,
life rests on solid ground,
practically permanent, almost eternal.
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Next to clouds
even a stone seems like a brother,
someone you can trust,
while they’re just distant, flighty cousins.
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Let people exist if they want,
and then die, one after another:
clouds simply don't care
what they're up to
down there.
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And so their haughty fleet
cruises smoothly over your whole life
and mine, still incomplete.
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They aren't obliged to vanish when we're gone.
They don't have to be seen while sailing on.

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《雲》
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我必須真的很迅速
才可描述雲─
半秒已足夠
它們開始轉化成其他事物。
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它們的商標：
它們不重覆任何一個
形狀、陰影、姿態、安排組合。
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沒有任何記憶負累，
它們輕易飄越事實。
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它們究竟能夠見證甚麼？
一旦事情發生它們便四散無痕。
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相比於雲，
生命腳踏實地，
可算長久，幾近永恆。
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僅次於雲
就算石頭也像個兄弟，
你能夠信任的人，
而它們只是輕浮的遠房表親。
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假使有人想要，便讓他們存活，
然後死去，一個接著一個：
雲根本不關心
他們在下面的
生死得失。
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所以它們傲慢的船隊
悠悠在你整個，和我還未完成的，人生上
巡行。
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當我們離去，它們沒有責任消亡。
當它們航行，毋需為人察看。
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