Emotions on a Friend Returing Her Hometown
by Jingyu
Translated by Christopher Tai
Inscription: Many of the thoughts and emotions of life come from the fact that we can never turn back, and we also have to go the final destination, whether known or unknown, with the wheel of time. Everyone's life is mixed with all emotions.
Already thousands of miles away from home
Though the shadow of missing you is behind me
it only stretches longer with time
Walking on that familiar street
Run into the one who once was full of sunshine
The thoughts that followed
Spread in the wind of homeland garden
Like those grass seeds we once planted
Using the one stroke which was not written well
to comb the tangle of the past
where things remain but people change
Trying to reconcile
in the dust of reality
Suddenly, a different definition in life is found
My hometown is
Years of winter and summer memories
My homeland is
The past that I thought was long forgotten
感念友人还乡
文/静语
题记：人生的许多思索和感慨来自于我们永远无法回头，又还要随着时间的车轮走向茫茫已知和未知的终点。每个人的人生都五味杂陈。
离乡已有万里
思念的影子在身后
却越拉越长
当走上那条熟悉的街
遇见曾经阳光的他
甩下的思绪
在故园的风里蔓延
如一颗颗不知何时种下的草粒
没有写好的那一笔
物是人非的过去
梳理着往昔的纠结
试图和解在
现实的风尘里
猛然间发现人生里不同的定义
家乡是
若干年的寒暑记忆
故土是
以为早已遗忘的过去
Jingyu is a pen name of Xin Liu (Lucy Liu). She used to be a MD and hold a Master degree in Immunology. She was a winner of the National Youth Poetry Competition in China, and was shortlisted for Flushing Poetry Festival in the United States. She is a member of Chinese Pen Society of Canada and Toronto Chinese Poetry Club. Her poems, essays and novels were published in newspapers, journals and online.
