Poem: Waiting for You to Come
A reader of Persian Xiaozhao’s blog left this poem in the comment session of one of her posts, translated by CDT’s Lucy Lin:
I waited for you the other day,
But you did not come.
Knowing that you would not come,
I only hoped that you would come.
Until now, you still haven’t come,
Yet I am still hoping that you could come.
Eventually, you will come,
And I will always wait for you to come.
(1989.12)
(Note: Everyone who has visited this site probably knows what “you” refers to in this poem. It has been almost 20 years, and I am still waiting.)
等你來
(1989.12)
那天等你來
你卻沒有來
知你會不來
我只盼你來
至今你未來
我仍盼你來
終究你會來
永遠等你來
(注: 这里的那个”你”是指什么来这儿的朋友应该是心照不宣了, 快二十年过去了, 我还在等.)
知名不具 2009.2
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http://blog.foolsmountain.com/2009/05/08/sorting-fact-from-fiction-%e2%80%93-tiananmen-revisited-part-1/
Blogger comments:
William Huang wrote: “democracy is also an experience and it cannot be obtained over night or taught in school. Without such experiences, it’s chaos. Therefore, the progress has to be gradual, particularly for a country with 1.3 billion populations.”
shane9210 wrote:
“Democracy also came out as an important part of civil tradition. Unfortunately, China’s long history did not provide any solid foudation for civil community. Under Chinese tradition, the next thing beyond the concept of family/tribe/clan is called kingdom/country, and all of them had to be guarded in orderly fashion through a single authority.
The concept of civil community that are formed and shared by people of equal rights are still very new to lots of Chinese. In the West, people are taking this notion for granted, but it would take at least two generations for such important experience to take root in china.”