the earth turned to bring us closer

by Eugenio Montejo
translated by Peter Boyle
quote from movie - 21 grams

The earth turned to bring us closer,
it spun on itself and within us,
and finally joined us together in this dream
as written in the Symposium.
Nights passed by, snowfalls and solstices;
time passed in minutes and millennia.
An ox cart that was on its way to Nineveh
arrived in Nebraska.
A rooster was singing some distance from the world,
in one of the thousand pre-lives of our fathers.
The earth was spinning with its music
carrying us on board;
it didn't stop turning a single moment
as if so much love, so much that's miraculous
was only an adagio written long ago
in the Symposium's score.

大地轉動讓我們靠近
她自己轉，在我們裡面轉
最終在此夢裡讓大家團圓
如《饗宴》所寫所說
一夜一夜過去，雪降，冬至；
每分每秒間，億年萬年間時間消逝
往尼尼微路上的牛車
卻到了內布拉斯加
站在世界外某處的公雞，啼著
是我們的父某個千世前生
大地在樂韻中轉動
讓我們佇立其上；
永不為改變某一刻停下
如同太多愛，太多奇蹟
藏於寫下經年的慢板樂的《饗宴》裡