Perhaps - Reply to the Loneliness of a Poet Perhaps our hearts will have no reader Perhaps we took the wrong road and so we end up lost Perhaps we light one lantern after another storms blow them out one by one Perhaps we burn our life candle against the dark but no fire warms the body Perhaps once we're out of tears the land will be fertilized Perhaps while we praise the sun we are also sung by the sun Perhaps the heavier the monkey on our shoulders the more we believe Perhaps we can only protest others' suffering silent to our own misfortune Perhaps because this call is irresistible we have no other choice
– Shu Ting (Translated by Tony Barnstone and Newton Liu)
