一棵开花的树

席慕容
									

如何让你遇见我
在我最美丽的时刻
 
为这
我已在佛前求了五百年
求佛让我们结一段尘缘
佛於是把我化做一棵树
长在你必经的路旁

阳光下
慎重地开满了花
朵朵都是我前世的盼望

当你走近
请你细听
那颤抖的叶
是我等待的热情
而当你终於无视地走过
在你身后落了一地的

朋友啊
那不是花瓣
那是我凋零的心

[英文]
A Blooming Tree
By
Seamoon

What could make thou meet me
At the prime of my beauty
For this I’d been praying before the Buddha
For half a century
May this worldly affinity be true

So the Buddha turned me into a tree
Growing in the path of they way
Carefully, fully blooming the tree
And in the sun
Every flower is my earnest pray of yesterday

When thou art stepping closely
Please listen respectfully
That trembling foliage is the zeal of my waiting
At length thou art passing by without hearing
Oh, my love
They are not petals
But all my withering heart
Paving the earth