誰曾打敗過時光？
你嗎？你曾用
石頭、刀、槍甚至最先進的核彈
企圖打敗時光嗎？
但是，結果呢？成功了嗎？

誰曾打敗過時光？
時光手無寸鐵
它卻輕易地打敗你，打敗萬物
令你和萬物一起滿臉皺紋
令你和萬物一起衰頹、腐朽

誰曾打敗過時光？
歷代君王如秦始皇等
他們曾企圖打敗時光，永生不死

但是，最後呢？
他們不是和萬物同朽了嗎？

誰曾打敗過時光？
你是清楚看到了
用什麼力量都沒辦法
用什麼武器都沒辦法
用什麼藥物都沒辦法

誰曾打敗過時光？
告訴你，我看見了
只有他，只有他
用柔軟如水的文字打敗過時光
只有他——詩人

Who has ever Defeated Times?　
　　　　Hsu ChiCheng

Who has ever defeated time?
You? Have you ever defeated time
With stone, knife and gun or even the nuclear warhead?
Yet, has you succeeded?

Who has ever defeated time?
However, the unarmed time
Can easily defeat you and all things on earth
It can make your face wrinkled
Make you rot with all things

Who has defeated time?
All the kings of the past dynasties including Qin Shi Huang
Tried their best to defeat time
And longed to live forever
Yet each of them had to rot into soil

Who has ever defeated time?
As you know no power can defeat time
No weapon can defeat time
No medicine can defeat time

Who has ever defeated time?
Let me tell you
Only he, with his lines soft as water
He, a poet
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