Missing You-Penelope Shuttle

Missing you By Penelope Shuttle

来自英国诗人 Penelope Shuttle 的诗 Missing You，诗人以第一人称的口吻诉说了自己对已故爱人深深的思念之情。
全诗共 21 小节，文字质朴，感情真挚，每句表白都温柔有力，直戳泪点。本次节选第 1、2、21 小节。

1 

This year no-one will ask how you voted,
or if you know the way to town
No-one will call you as an eye-witness
or teach you how to train a bird of prey
No-one will bring you your New Scientist,
try to sell you double-glazing
or tell you their secrets
People will write to you
but you won’t answer their letters
The high sheriff of mistletoe will never catch your
eye again
No-one will peel apples for you,
or love you more than you can bear
No-one will forget you

2

 I wept in Tesco,
Sainsburys and in Boots
where they gave me medicine for grief
But I wept in Asda,
in Woolworths and in the library where they gave
me books on grief
I wept in Clarks looking in vain for shoes that
would stop me weeping
I wept on the peace March
and all through the war
I wept in Superdrug where they gave me a free
box of tissues
I wept in the churches,
the empty empty churches,
and in the House of Commons –
they voted me out of office

21
I’ve lived with your death for a year,
that despot death, that realist,
stunned,
as if I’ve just given birth to a foal,
or made an enemy of the rain
All at once
you had more important things to do than to live
Death is the feather in your cap,
the source of your fame,
my darkest lesson
This dropout year closes,
I begin my second year without you,
just me and the paper-thin world