我当然祈祷过

我当然祈祷过——

可上帝在乎吗？

在他眼中这不过是

空中的鸟，跺了跺脚——

大喊着“给我”——

生存的理由——

我不曾有过，若不是因为你——

将我留在原子的坟墓里——

快乐，虚无，欢愉，麻木——

比起这锥心的痛苦

已是一种仁慈。

Of Course—I prayed

Of Course—I prayed—

And did God Care?

He cared as much as on the Air

A Bird—had stamped her foot—

And cried “Give Me”—

My Reason—Life—

I had not had—but for Yourself—

’Twere better Charity

To leave me in the Atom’s Tomb—

Merry, and Nought, and gay, and numb—

Than this smart Misery.