旺記

Sidewise Rare Earth
/ Heng Yee Wang Tr. by Tiong

1. Diluted
It must be the homesick
urging you to search
outside a land
to hold this sadness

but why
have you chosen my homeland
to dilute your
sorrow

why have
you used my beauty
to dilute your
shame

dear stranger
for why
you have wanted to use
me, leaving me
with undiluted sorrow
from the very beginning?

2. Smashed
Smashed love, muddy story,
muddy story diluted and
transformed as rare earth landed from the sky

Look, again it comes the travellers
with their hope, ploughed the land as if opening
the wallet, write with the hoe, planting contract and love

The unearthed land voices up the unearthed voice:
Smashed and desperation
What to do with hope——

Love and story
What to do with contract!
Unearthed land once again uses the unearthed sound
Echoes:

The sky is merely smashed

3. Rare
The man shouted to the sky:
“Let me tell you, I-believe- not-!”

During those years, the anger we have been tracing……

I heard the echoes:
Let me tell you, I- care- not-

4. Rare Earth
Playing wise for love
Making our love more and more
diluted