最美好的前途 - 佚名合唱
Stars
Deeply depressed
Highly pressed, by family and else
Moderately stressed
Somewhat drunk
No bright future ahead
Looks up at the sky
stars
billions of years of evolution
stars
millions of years of travelling light
stars
thousands of years of war and conquest
stars
stars
Hello, they say, how have you been?
Hello, they say, I hope I can see you again.
stars
Inter-mingling, dancing, blinking,
In a show of radiance,
Spilling their brightness onto us,
Preparing, singing
In a chorus,
Plucking frequencies that combine into
Positrons, electrons
Quarks, mesons
Photons, gravitons,
Light!
And so they say,
Let there be light!
Let the seas follow the marked boundaries,
Let the peacemakers be blessed...
And don't look back,
Lest you be turned
Into a pillar
Of salt
Of gluons and neutrinos and exotic matter.
Goodbye, they say, we come from the past
And there is nothing here anymore
Nothing important. Nothing bright
As the light
leaves us at the speed of time.
Hello, I say.
Quite a bit delayed, unheard by anyone,
As the tardy photons reach my retina,
Thus separated, forever,
beyond my power,
From
stars,
stars.
stars.
-2026.4.21, Waterloo ON, Tony Su
Art Credit: Sunny (Fangxu) Gong