<p class="ql-block">The Ambush</p><p class="ql-block">I learned to grieve in silence,</p><p class="ql-block">As much as I learned to love you,</p><p class="ql-block">To surrender to your longing and die within it.</p><p class="ql-block">A bitter truth set me free:</p><p class="ql-block">That your love for me,</p><p class="ql-block">In reality,</p><p class="ql-block">Was a spider.</p><p class="ql-block">My simple dream was to find you,</p><p class="ql-block">Carrying my burdens,</p><p class="ql-block">Standing tall within my eyes,</p><p class="ql-block">My blood flowing through your veins.</p><p class="ql-block">I gave my heart to the sunrise,</p><p class="ql-block">Only to awaken and find you were a guillotine</p><p class="ql-block">In the hands of your own love.</p><p class="ql-block">And my love for you,</p><p class="ql-block">Was the whole point of the problem.</p><p class="ql-block">Your beginning was painful,</p><p class="ql-block">Your ending, crafted in deceit,</p><p class="ql-block">Cut to fit,</p><p class="ql-block">Without prayer.</p><p class="ql-block">I used to worship you,</p><p class="ql-block">Not even as a pagan to an idol.</p><p class="ql-block">I didn’t know the end of my love for you was nothingness,</p><p class="ql-block">Lost in regret.</p><p class="ql-block">I was like dough,</p><p class="ql-block">Shaped by your fingers.</p><p class="ql-block">I was like dough,</p><p class="ql-block">Shaped by your fingers.</p><p class="ql-block">I would find a future blooming</p><p class="ql-block">Under your sun, under your shadow,</p><p class="ql-block">And I’d forgive my past days</p><p class="ql-block">For ever</p><p class="ql-block">Having loved you.</p><p class="ql-block">Don’t deny I was the only one born</p><p class="ql-block">From your sky with two stars,</p><p class="ql-block">Two engravings on my forehead,</p><p class="ql-block">Perfectly matched.</p><p class="ql-block">The sun of dead truth was colored</p><p class="ql-block">Between my sincere words and your fake smile.</p><p class="ql-block">Your phony lines were created:</p><p class="ql-block">Sometimes an angel,</p><p class="ql-block">Sometimes destruction,</p><p class="ql-block">Sometimes your flaws were an epic poem</p><p class="ql-block">You’d tell with feigned innocence.</p><p class="ql-block">Your created devil didn’t leave</p><p class="ql-block">In the fire of your cruel loneliness.</p><p class="ql-block">Between the soft whisper of your voice</p><p class="ql-block">Filling an empty time,</p><p class="ql-block">I was there,</p><p class="ql-block">Remembering you calling him.</p><p class="ql-block">My heart was your toy,</p><p class="ql-block">You’d try it out.</p><p class="ql-block">It was no good except for being sad.</p><p class="ql-block">And for years,</p><p class="ql-block">When your dream would come to me and then leave,</p><p class="ql-block">I’d feel choked.</p><p class="ql-block">I’d become like the truth when it’s hanged</p><p class="ql-block">In the eyes of the wronged.</p><p class="ql-block">And for years,</p><p class="ql-block">When you were the cloud for me,</p><p class="ql-block">And the thirst in my tongue would howl,</p><p class="ql-block">Like wolves</p><p class="ql-block">Standing over a feast for the dead,</p><p class="ql-block">Waiting to share the meal.</p><p class="ql-block">My look was the orphan.</p><p class="ql-block">Your look… was the ambush</p> <p class="ql-block">伏击</p><p class="ql-block">我学会了在沉默中悲恸,</p><p class="ql-block">正如我曾学会爱你那般深切,</p><p class="ql-block">沉溺于对你的渴望,在其中耗尽自我。</p><p class="ql-block">一个残酷的真相将我解脱:</p><p class="ql-block">你对我的爱,</p><p class="ql-block">事实上,</p><p class="ql-block">不过是一只织网的蜘蛛。</p><p class="ql-block">我单纯的梦想,是寻到你——</p><p class="ql-block">承载我的重担,</p><p class="ql-block">在我眼中挺拔伫立,</p><p class="ql-block">让我的血液在你的血管里流淌不息。</p><p class="ql-block">我将心托付给朝阳,</p><p class="ql-block">醒来却发现,你竟是一把断头台,</p><p class="ql-block">握在你自身的爱意手里。</p><p class="ql-block">而我对你的爱,</p><p class="ql-block">便是这一切问题的症结核心。</p><p class="ql-block">你的开端满是痛楚,</p><p class="ql-block">你的结局由欺骗铸就,</p><p class="ql-block">量身剪裁,</p><p class="ql-block">毫无一丝虔诚。</p><p class="ql-block">我曾那般敬慕你,</p><p class="ql-block">甚至超越异教徒对偶像的崇拜。</p><p class="ql-block">我从不知,我对你的爱终将归于虚无,</p><p class="ql-block">在悔恨中消散无迹。</p><p class="ql-block">我曾如一团面团,</p><p class="ql-block">任你的指尖肆意塑形。</p><p class="ql-block">我曾如一团面团,</p><p class="ql-block">任你的指尖肆意塑形。</p><p class="ql-block">我本以为,未来会在</p><p class="ql-block">你的阳光下、你的阴影里绽放生机,</p><p class="ql-block">我也会永远原谅那些过往岁月——</p><p class="ql-block">只因曾爱过你。</p><p class="ql-block">别否认,我是那唯一从你双星闪耀的天际</p><p class="ql-block">降临之人,</p><p class="ql-block">额间两道印记,</p><p class="ql-block">完美契合,天作之合。</p><p class="ql-block">死寂真相的烈日,在我真挚的话语</p><p class="ql-block">与你虚伪的笑容间晕染开色彩。</p><p class="ql-block">你编造出虚伪的台词:</p><p class="ql-block">时而化身天使,</p><p class="ql-block">时而化身毁灭,</p><p class="ql-block">时而将自身缺陷粉饰成史诗,</p><p class="ql-block">带着佯装的纯真娓娓道来。</p><p class="ql-block">你亲手造就的恶魔,</p><p class="ql-block">从未在你残酷孤独的火焰中离去。</p><p class="ql-block">当你轻柔的低语填满空洞的时光,</p><p class="ql-block">我就在那里,</p><p class="ql-block">听见你呼唤着他的名字。</p><p class="ql-block">我的心曾是你的玩具,</p><p class="ql-block">你肆意把玩,</p><p class="ql-block">它除了承载悲伤,一无是处。</p><p class="ql-block">多少年来,</p><p class="ql-block">当你的幻影向我袭来又悄然离去,</p><p class="ql-block">我便感到窒息。</p><p class="ql-block">我变得如同蒙冤者眼中</p><p class="ql-block">那被高悬的真相,孤立无援。</p><p class="ql-block">多少年来,</p><p class="ql-block">你于我是遮天蔽日的云,</p><p class="ql-block">我舌尖的渴望如狼嗥般嘶吼,</p><p class="ql-block">像群狼守着逝者的盛宴,</p><p class="ql-block">等待分食残羹。</p><p class="ql-block">我的目光是无依的孤雏,</p><p class="ql-block">而你的目光……便是那场蓄谋已久的伏击。</p>