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No Time

Expecting or not
Isn't time just standing there
Everyday accompany patience waiting outside the bedroom door

From exhausting to exhausting
Not yet awake   Already tripped by sleep
Live in between sleepiness
Nine O'clock in the morning add to nine O'clock in the evening equal to my time
No matter early or late January day or December night
Thought exchange is the concept of time

Copy lovemaking to copy some time
But the overdrawn time is less than the overdrawn fatigue
Desire guards under the drowsy eyelids immobile

Time has been born long before us
Calendar can be made a year before hand
Yet we cannot produce one year's life in advance
We all are indebted to time
Just like a Christmas gift delays to New Year
Churning blood inside the body paying back drop by drop each day to time eventually melting into
sunshine

No matter head or tail of year
Coin tossing speed is the concept of time
Rich youth will never gang up with poor money

Outside world spinning inside time's water drops
Inner world   The pastThe present   And the future individually standing there confronting one
another
We are living in the second hand time
Yet nowhere to purchase the cheap precious stone time
Doze off into the fantasy world
Time still brushing through the threshold of reality

From past life to future life
Nothing but sliding inside the sand drops of this life
Even in the break of rebirth   Time will never drop into a deep sleep

Stop looking around
Even reincarnation cannot freeze the time
In the childhood   Months are following us to learn how to crawl
In the old age   Minutes are holding an experienced hammer chasing after us
Starting to count down
Searching for the hibernation nest of time

 

Original Chinese    10:00 AM    Tuesday, 24th February 1998
English Translation    11:13 AM    Tuesday, 24th February 1998



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