ANGER

Anger

You tell me
That it’s all right
to let it out of its cages,
Though it may claw someone,
Even bite.
You say that letting it out may tame it somehow.
But loose it mayturn on me,
maulmy face, draw blood.
Ah, you think you know so much,
you whose anger is a pet dog,its canines dull with disuse.
But mine is a rabid thing,
sharpening its teethon my very bones,
and I will never let it go.

你對我說
這並沒有問題
就讓牠離開囚禁自己的鐵籠吧，
即使牠將抓捏，甚或緊咬別人。
是你說的就隨牠離去，
總會被馴服的。
如果鬆開牠或會
轉向我，割破
我的臉，淌血。
啊！你自以為洞悉一切，
你的憤怒不過是頭牙齒圓鈍的
拿在手裡賞玩的小狗，
可我的是狂暴，
骨頭正磨銳齒尖，
而我絕不容牠逃脫。