Ai Qing
Unlike lost luggage.
You can get it back at the lost and found office.
Lost Years
I don't even know where I lost it.
Some have disappeared in dribs and drabs.
Some have been lost for ten or twenty years.
Some are lost in the noisy city.
Some are lost in the distant wilderness.
Have a plenty of crowded stations.
There are some empty ones under the small oil lamp.
What is lost is not like a piece of paper, you can pick it up.
More like a bowl of water spilled on the ground.
It's dry. There's no shadow.
Time is a flowing liquid.
You can't salvage it with a sieve or net.
Time cannot become a solid.
I wish I were a fossil.
In fact, it can be found in rock formations for tens of thousands of years.
Time is like a gas.
Like smoke from the front of a speeding train
The lost years are like a friend.
Cut off contact and suffer.
Suddenly got the news that he
Long gone.