"Youth" from Xi Murong's Poetry Collection

Youth

All the endings have been written

All the tears have started

But suddenly I forgot what it was like A beginning

In that ancient summer that never comes back

No matter how I pursue it

The young you are just like a cloud shadow passing by

And your smiling face is very light and pale

Gradually disappearing in the mist after sunset

Then you open the yellowed title page

Fate has bound it extremely poorly

With tears in my eyes, I read it again and again

But I have to admit that

Youth is a book that is too hasty

The book uses both first and second person pronouns. It reads as if it is talking about "youth". I went to pursue it, but you just passed by like a cloud shadow. It not only uses personification Technique, and vividly expresses the fleeting ephemerality of youth, as well as the author's regret, reluctance, and helplessness towards this ephemeral period. The meaning of "hurry" is beyond words.