Affirmation/확인
Donald Hall - 1928-2018/도날드 홀
To grow old is to lose everything.
Aging, everybody knows it.
Even when we are young,
we glimpse it sometimes, and nod our heads
when a grandfather dies.
나이가 든다는 것은 모든 것을 잃어버리는 것이지요.
노화가 이렇다는 것을 모두가 알고 있지요.
우리가 젊었을 때도,
가끔 노화의 실체를 조금은 경험하기도 하지요, 할아버지가 세상을 떠날 때에
우리는 고개를 끄덕이면서 수긍을 하게 되지요.
Then we row for years on the midsummer
pond, ignorant and content. But a marriage,
that began without harm, scatters
into debris on the shore,
and a friend from school drops
cold on a rocky strand.
If a new love carries us
past middle age, our wife will die
at her strongest and most beautiful.
New women come and go. All go.
The pretty lover who announces
that she is temporary
is temporary. The bold woman,
middle-aged against our old age,
sinks under an anxiety she cannot withstand.
Another friend of decades estranges himself
in words that pollute thirty years.
Let us stifle under mud at the pond's edge
and affirm that it is fitting
and delicious to lose everything.
한글번역: Nancy Helen Kim
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