回望二十世紀(jì)
――獻(xiàn)給納爾遜•曼德拉

站在時(shí)間的岸邊
站在一個(gè)屬于精神的高地
我在回望二十世紀(jì)
此時(shí)我沒(méi)有眼淚
歡樂(lè)和痛苦都變得陌生
我好像站在另一個(gè)空間
在審視人類一段奇特的歷史

其實(shí)這一百年
戰(zhàn)爭(zhēng)與和平從未離開(kāi)過(guò)我們
而對(duì)暴力的控訴也未曾停止
有人歌唱過(guò)自由
也有人獻(xiàn)身于民主
但人類經(jīng)歷得最多的還是專制和迫害
其實(shí)這一百年
誕生過(guò)無(wú)數(shù)偉大的幻想
但災(zāi)難卻也接踵而至
其實(shí)這一百年
多種族的人類，把文明又一次推向了頂峰
我們都曾在地球的某一個(gè)角落
悄悄地流下過(guò)感激的淚水
二十世紀(jì)
你讓一部分人歡呼和平的時(shí)候
卻讓另一部分人的兩眼布滿仇恨的影子
你讓黑人在大街上祈求人權(quán)
卻讓殘殺和暴力出現(xiàn)在他們家中
你讓我們認(rèn)識(shí)卡爾•馬克思的同時(shí)

也讓我們見(jiàn)到了尼采
你讓我們看見(jiàn)愛(ài)因斯坦是怎樣提出了相對(duì)論
你同時(shí)又讓我們目睹這個(gè)人最后成為基督徒
你曾把許多巨人的思想變得虛無(wú)
你也曾把某個(gè)無(wú)名者的話語(yǔ)鉛印成真理
你散布過(guò)阿爾夫•希特勒的法西斯主張
你宣揚(yáng)過(guò)圣雄甘地的非暴力主義
你讓社會(huì)主義在一些國(guó)家獲得成功
同時(shí)你又讓國(guó)際工人運(yùn)動(dòng)處于了低潮
在誕生弗洛伊德的泛性論年代
你推崇過(guò)霍梅尼和伊斯蘭革命
你為了馬丁•路德•金聞名全世界
卻讓這個(gè)人以被別人槍殺為代價(jià)
你在非洲產(chǎn)生過(guò)博卡薩這樣可以吃人肉的獨(dú)裁者
同樣你也在非洲養(yǎng)育了人類的驕子納爾遜•曼德拉
你叫柏林墻在一夜之間倒塌
你卻又叫車臣人和俄羅斯人產(chǎn)生仇恨
還沒(méi)有等阿拉伯人和猶太人真正和解
你又在科索沃引發(fā)了新的危機(jī)和沖突
你讓人類在極度縱欲的歡娛之后
最后卻要承受艾滋病的痛苦和折磨
你的確讓人類看到了遺傳工程的好處
卻又讓人類的精神在工業(yè)文明的泥沼中異化而亡
你把信息時(shí)代的技術(shù)
傳播到了拉丁美洲最邊遠(yuǎn)的部落
你卻又讓一種文化在沒(méi)有硝煙的地方
消滅另一種文化
你在歐洲降下人們渴望已久的冬
你卻又在哥倫比亞暴雨如注
使一個(gè)印第安人的村莊毀滅于山洪

你讓我們?cè)谠虑蛏线b望美麗的地球
使我們相信每一個(gè)民族都是兄弟
可你又讓我們因宗教而產(chǎn)生分歧與離異
在巴爾干和耶路撒冷相互屠殺
你讓高科技移植我們需要的器官
你又讓這些器官感受到核武器的恐懼
在紐約人們關(guān)心更多的是股市的漲跌
但在非洲饑餓和瘟疫卻時(shí)刻威脅著人類
是的，二十世紀(jì)
當(dāng)我真的回望你的時(shí)候
我才發(fā)現(xiàn)你是如此的神秘
你是必然，又是偶然
你仿佛證明的是過(guò)去
似乎預(yù)示著的又是未來(lái)
你好象是上帝在無(wú)意間
遺失的一把鋒利無(wú)比的雙刃劍

Looking Back Upon the 20th Century
           ------Dedicated to Nelson Mandela

Standing by the bank of time
standing on the highland of spirit
I’m looking back upon the 20th century
Now, no tears flowing down my cheeks
happiness and pain seem unfamiliar to me
I seem to be standing in another space
to examine an unusual phase of the history of mankind

In fact, in the last century
war and peace were always with us
denouncing violence never stopped
someone sang of freedom
someone gave his life for democracy
however, what mankind had undergone most were autocracy and persecution
In fact, in the last century
countless great dreams emerged
while sufferings came one after another
In fact, in the last century
the multiracial mankind had pushed human civilization to a new peak
for that, all of us were moved to tears
at a certain corner of the world
The 20th century!
while you let part of people hailed peace
you let another part of people’s eyes covered with the reflection of hatred
You let Black people praying for human rights in the street
meanwhile, you let violence and slaughter arising in their houses
While you let us know of Karl Marx

you let us know of Nietzsche
While you let us know how Einstein advanced the theory of relativity
you let us see for ourselves this person finally became a Christian
You had changed many giants’ thoughts into nothingness
You had printed a certain nobody’s words as the truth
You spread Adolf  Hitler’s fascism
You gave publicity to Mahatma Gandhi’s non-violence
While you let socialism come true in some countries
you let the international labor movement be at a low tide
During the years when Floyd’s  pan-sexualism came out
you praised highly Khomeini and Islam Revolution
You let Martin Luther King, Jr. became world-famous
at the cost of his being shot dead
In Africa, you produced Bokaffa, a demoniac autocrat
and in the same place you brought up Nelson Mandela, a
favorite son of mankind
While you had the Berlin Wall collapsed overnight
you let Chechens and the Russians look upon each other with hatred
When the Arabians and the Jews had not become reconciled
you caused new crisis and conflict in Kosovo
You let people suffer from AIDS
after giving way to their carnal desires
Indeed you let mankind see the benefit of genentic engineering
but you let the spirit of mankind die away from alienation in the mire
Of the industrial civilization
While you had spread the technology of the information age
to the outlying tribes in Latin America
you let a kind of culture killed
by another kind of culture without the means of violence

While you let winter snow fall on the European land
You let rainstorms pelt down in Colombia with the result
that an American Indian village was destroyed in a mountain torrents
While you let us look at the earth from the moon
to let us believe all nations were brothers
you let us kill each other in the Balkans and Jerusalem
because of the difference between religions
While you let high-tech transplant the organs we needed
you let those organs frightened with nuclear weapons