Life: The Art of Losing Isn't Hard to Master

今天,是爸爸的祭日,十年前的今晚,我失去了生命中最重要的人,被迫一夜長大。

那時的我,是多麼的慌張,一家女眷擠在急診室裡,望著重病而已經昏迷不醒的爸爸,我知道他有多麼不甘心,我知道他有多不願意離開我們,但是再多的不捨也只能化作眼淚,世界就在一剎那之間變成一條冰冷的直線。我完全記不得那之後我是否說了甚麼,因為一切對我而言都變成一直線,而我的生命卻不再能夠是單純的、美好的直線。

是的,我所記得的只是那一直線。十二月天,好冷好冷,生命陷入無盡的死寂。

我撐了過來,在我應該是最痛苦的時候。但我卻不知道,那失去的痛苦卻會如影隨形的羈絆著我,我不知道自己會在無盡綿延的孤單裡自我放逐。

接下來的幾年,生命是沒有顏色的,好像總是在尋找著生命的意義,但是我還是孤獨。

我想念我的父親。

談了些戀愛,或者應該說自以為是戀愛的戀愛,但我卻不明瞭那是飛蛾撲火,痛苦的依舊是我。

爸爸會對我說甚麼呢?我這樣想像著,他或許會抱抱我,說著,傻孩子,怎麼這麼傻?怎麼要讓別人這樣傷害你呢?怎麼要讓爸爸這樣心疼呢?

爸爸啊,我並不知道他們會傷害我啊,我以為那就是愛啊。

我只想有一個溫暖的懷抱,難道這是很奢侈的要求?

經過了這些年,經歷了許多事情,我終於明白,失去,永遠都是痛苦的。

但是,失去一些,領悟一些,或許是我在這個世界生存最好的方式。

但願,我不要再受苦了,

但願,我不會再受傷了,

我想要把自己好好的包起來,讓別人看不見我,也無法傷害我。

但願,有一天我能學會詩人的豁達,學會面對失去。

One Art
(by Elizabeth Bishop)

The art of losing isn't hard to master;
so many things seem filled with intent
to be lost that their loss is no disaster.

Lost something everyday. Accept the fluster
of lost door keys, the hour badly spent.
The art of losing isn't hard to master.

Then practice losing farther, losing faster;
places, and names, and where it was you meant
to travel. None of these will bring disaster.

I lost my mother's watch. And look! my last, or
next-to-last, of three loved houses went.
The art of losing isn't hard to master.

I lost two cities, lovely ones. And vaster,
some realms I owned, two rivers, a continent.
I missed them, but it wasn't a disaster.

--Even losing you (the joking voice, a gesture
I loved) I shan't have lied. It's evident
the art of losing isn't hard to master
though it may look like (Write it!) like a disaster.

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