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Today, the Gods made me bleed again

今天，眾神又讓我鮮血淋漓

They chained my feet, so tight,

他們緊緊束縛住我的雙腳

I could barely move

我?guī)缀鮿?dòng)彈不得

I bleed through my socks,

我的血液滲透襪子

Last month was my left ankle,

上個(gè)月 傷的是我的左腳踝

today it was the right

今天是右腳踝

When I wash,

當(dāng)我清洗時(shí)

the soap burns like fire

肥皂像火一樣灼燒傷口

but I have to keep my ankles clean

但我不得不這樣去保持腳踝的清潔

because I don’t have any alcohol,

因?yàn)槲覜](méi)有酒精

or broxide

也沒(méi)有安眠藥

Nothing to kill a bacteria or infections

無(wú)法殺死細(xì)菌或預(yù)防感染

and this place is filthy

這里很臟

I can’t remember what it’s like

我不再記得

to walk as a human being anymore

作為人類行走的感覺(jué)了

My cell is so small

我的牢房太小了

that I can only take two steps

我只能移動(dòng)兩步

Any time when I’m brought out,

當(dāng)我被帶出去放風(fēng)

I walk briefly or infrequently,

只走幾步路而已

I have chains on my hands and feet

我的手腳上也有鎖鏈禁錮

as well as guards hanging on me

并且有守衛(wèi)抓著我

And well over sixteen years since I have barely walked anywhere

16年來(lái)我?guī)缀鯖](méi)有走過(guò)路

Sometimes I still can’t read my mind about now

有時(shí)候我也不知道自己在想什么

I’m working on my seventeenth year now,

在我十七歲工作的時(shí)候

There were times when I thought,

有時(shí)候會(huì)想

"Surely, someone’s gonna put a stop to this.

“肯定會(huì)有人阻止這一切的

Surely someone is going to do something"

肯定有人會(huì)這么做”

But they never do

但沒(méi)有人

Time just rolls on

時(shí)光卻滾滾向前

It’s insanity

真是瘋狂

I’m truly amazed of what they’ve gonna allow to get away with

我驚訝于

and for how long

他們能讓我們離開(kāi)多久

Oh well,

好吧

there’s no good to dwell on it

這樣做沒(méi)有好處

either I waste my energy by focusing on things I cannot change

與其浪費(fèi)精力在這些我無(wú)法改變的事情上

or I can serve my energy

不如在這些我能改變的事情上

and to bled to small things I can change.

竭盡全力

That’s what the I Ching calls --

那就是《易經(jīng)》中

The taming power of the small.

“風(fēng)天小畜”的含義