Primitive "fish fossils"
How vivid the action is,
How energetic,
Jumping in the waves,
Floating on the sea.
Unfortunately, when the volcano erupts,
Could be an earthquake,
You lost your freedom,
Buried in dust;
Hundreds of millions of years later,
Geological exploration team,
Found you in the rocks,
Still lifelike.
But you were silent,
Not even a sigh,
Scales and fins are intact,
But don't move.
You're absolutely still,
No response to the outside world,
Can't see the sky and water,
I can't hear the waves.
Staring at a fossil,
Fools have learned their lesson,
Without exercise,
There is no life.
To live is to fight,
March forward in the struggle,
When death did not come,
Clean up the energy
Fossilized fish: In case of "earthquake" and "volcanic eruption", there are countless dead fish, but only a few will become fossils, so it must be lucky compared with the part that disappears. Now that the "Rightists" have been crucified, Ai Qing hopes that he is the lucky one and can become a "fish fossil" waiting for the expedition to discover hundreds of millions of years later. The "fish fossils" at that time were still vivid.
The fish that encountered the mutation "unfortunately encountered a volcanic eruption, or it may be an earthquake." The fish lost its freedom, was buried in the dust and lost its life. Once a literati who could have created as he pleases was classified as Rightist and suppressed for no reason, his freedom was thus restricted. For Ai Qing, this is tantamount to taking a fish out of the water and burying it in the soil or molten pulp.
"Fish Fossil" Discovered by Explorers
Even if you can only keep silent, but "scales and fins are complete", although you can't defend yourself, there must be someone who knows the truth, and someone who can find his innocence like an explorer who finds a fish fossil. But at that time, I may be dead, and I can't see anyone washing away my grievances, being silent, unable to move, unable to even sigh, unable to respond to the outside world, unable to see the sky and water, and unable to hear the waves. What a pity.