Searching For A Name
Bharati Nayak
I was born to a home
Where every body calls it Mr.X’s home
I was married to a Home
Where everybody calls it Mr.Y’s home
And refers me
As Mr.Z’s wife
I became a mother
They call me as someone’s mother
I brought home
A daughter-in-law
They call me as someone’s mother-in-law
My name is never referred
I always live by
With some names tagged by
I took upon it myself
Toearna name
Where Mr.X, Y, Z and A, B, C, D, E
Will be tagged after me
The question haunted me
And I hunted for a space
For myself
I came to meet
Poem Hunter without a prefix
Oh! At last there I found
My sweet little name
And the Big Big Home.
尋找名字
巴拉提·那雅克
我生於一戶人家
人們口中李先生的家
我嫁到一戶人家
人們口中王先生的家
他們叫我張太
我成為母親
他們叫我誰的媽媽
我迎回家
一位兒媳
他們叫我誰的婆婆
我的名字從不被提及
我永遠
活在誰的標籤之下
我決定為自己取一個名字
趙錢孫李周吳鄭王都將活在我的名字下
這個問題困擾著我
我尋找著一方淨土
為了自己
我找到了
沒有前綴的詩歌獵人*
喔！我終於找到了
我小小的名字
和大大的家
*詩歌獵人，Poem Hunter，一個詩歌網站。在上面隨機遇見了這首詩，我很喜歡前半段關於沒有名字活在誰的標籤之下的敘述，擅自搬過來翻譯了一下。原詩。