崖邊 - 陳柏偉

朋友徐東翔拍的作品﹐我相對少做的中英翻譯。



崖邊

一片海洋　　有兩款風景
有時看到　　天清無雲
一款風景　　有兩種心情
有人遇到　　狂風暴雨
肖狗湧打碎浮出頭的願望

阮站在懸崖邊　　海風吹散了淚
望你也來想起　　紅燈戶的花蕊
阮企在懸崖邊　　海湧洗落胭脂
望恁不通忘記　　漂浪的女兒

阮盼望有一天　　海面船帆若繁星
所有失去的攏可以找到依偎
阮盼望有一天　　海面船帆若繁星
所有失去的攏可以找到依偎

Cliff

Two faces of the same ocean.
A clear sky, perfect day
The same landscape, two sensations
A storm –
The billows that breaks my newborn hope

I stand on the edge of the cliff
The wind blows away my tears
Forget me not… the flower of the bordello

Stand on the edge of the cliff
Waves that wash away my rouge
Remember me… the daughter, the drifter

If there will be a day
when sails home like thousand stars
All the lost to find its belonging

這是官秀琴的故事﹐大家都叫她官姐...

Guan Xiu Qing was one of the major figures in Collective Of Sex Workers And Supporters. COSWAS emerges as a counter action towards the abolishment of legal sex worker in Taipei, year 1997. It creates a big discussion and turmoil inside the intellectual and social movement circle. Underground sex worker suffers from local gang, mafia, clients and police.

She is famous for her line: The people who spend life in air-conditioned office will never understand what it feels like – the feeling of standing on the cliff, if I step back, I fall.

When Guan Xiu Qing was fourteen, her father dies. She was sold to her husband for 600 US dollars. Only thing she brought to the new family was the cloth on her. Her meager dowry makes her marriage life rather difficult, it ends after three years. For supporting her blind mother, her children and her younger brother who was in a car accident, she became a legal sex worker for thirty years.

She was found suicide by drowning in year 2006.