"I shattered the setting sun, ___________"

我打碎了夕陽，照出支離破碎的世界

有人在支溝撈明月，有人在雲門竟坐忘

那天春風過市，吹散開到荼蘼的櫻花

那些散落陶道的銘牌，無人願意拾起

我背倚昆侖，目隨太溪注入滄海

且待明晨，娑婆世界終將百會。

I shattered the setting sun,

mirroring the world in fractured shards.

Some, at Branch Ditch, fish for the bright moon;

some, at Cloud Gate, sit in the void.

That day, the spring wind crossed the town,

scattering cherry blossoms blooming to their end.

Those nameplates strewn along the Pottery Path —

no one would stoop to lift them.

I rest my back against Kunlun,

my gaze trails the Great Stream into the boundless sea.

Await the morrow’s dawn —

this Saha world shall, at last, meet at Hundred Convergences.

*風市(GB21,Fengshi) hides in line 5.

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