我愛你 （I Love You)

I love you in a way of feeling hopeless,
As if mice which love rice in a covered jug.
As if ants love honey in a sealed jar,
Such love how can I express?
My love to you lasts long never overnight,
As a small stream flowing far.
As grass on the prairie being played by a single spark,
As spring rain moistening things, then surging like the tide.
Is it my love that makes you feel overwhelmed?
So you start to retreat and run away?
How many people as crazy as me are there in the world?
Is it me who worries about trouble all the way?
Dandelions may be gone at any time with the wind,
But I want to catch your heart tight don't let you go away.
我愛你，愛得這樣無奈，
像老鼠愛著缸里的大米。
像螞蟻愛著罐里的蜂蜜，
這樣的愛我如何去表白？
我愛你不是一夜春風來，
是細水長流到天荒地老。
是星星之火離離原上草，
是春雨潤物又心潮澎湃。
是否我的熱情讓你難受？
所以對我開始東躲西逃。
痴情如我世間幾個能夠？
難道一直是我自尋煩惱？
蒲公英可隨時隨風飄走，
我想把你的心緊緊抓牢。

(Originally I thought loving a person is to capture his heart and make him love me back. He didn't know that I had a crush on him and then I loved him more than he loved me. He was my first love.
You will feel pain when you love someone who doesn't love you back the way you love him. I wrote this in Chinese first and then translated into English. There are 10 characters in each line of the Chinese version, and the rhyming scheme is abba,abba,cdcdcd )

文/劉小曼 March 24, 2015

 

原貼： http://www.writingforums.com/threads/155845-I-Love-You?highlight=Xiaoman

 

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