Name: 【TED】Emtithal Mahmoud:一位年輕詩人講述達爾富爾的故事（一位年輕詩人講述達爾富爾的故事｜Emtithal Mahmoud）。 (【TED】Emtithal Mahmoud: A young poet tells the story of Darfur (A young poet tells the story of Darfur | Emtithal Mahmoud))
Uploaded: 2021-01-14T07:31:16.000Z
Duration: 10 min 52 s

I was 10 years old when I learned what the word "genocide" meant.

譯者: Teresa Huang 審譯者: Yanyan Hong

當我在十歲的時候， 我已認識到甚麼是「種族滅絕」。

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and my people were being brutally attacked because of their race --

我的族人因種族而遭殘酷的攻擊，

a nation torn apart at the hands of its own government.

My mother and father immediately began speaking out against the crisis.

一個被自己政府親手撕裂的國家，

我的父母立即出面發聲抨擊時局。

except for the fact that it was destroying my parents.

One day, I walked in on my mother crying,

只知道我父母正因此飽受摧殘。

and I asked her why we are burying so many people.

有一天，我撞見正在哭泣的母親，

I don't remember the words that she chose

我問她為何我們要埋葬這麼多人，

to describe genocide to her 10-year-old daughter,

向她的十歲女兒解釋種族滅絕，

This is when I wrote my first poem about Darfur.

I wrote poetry to convince people to hear and see us,

就在當時我寫下 關於達爾富爾的第一首詩，

and that's how I learned the thing that changed me.

我通過寫詩說服人們 聆聽與關注我們，

I mean, look at me -- I'm a young African woman with a scarf around my head,

看看我，一個包頭巾的年輕非洲女性，

and a story that makes even the most brutal of Monday mornings seem inviting.

But it's hard to convince people that they deserve to be seen.

我的故事會令最無情的 星期一早晨都散發出吸引力。

I learned this in my high school classroom one day,

但很難去說服人們 去看見這些東西。

when my teacher asked me to give a presentation about Darfur.

我在高中某天的課堂裡 領悟到這一點，

I was setting up the projector when a classmate of mine said,

當時我的老師要我做一個 關於達爾富爾的簡報。

當我在架設投影機時 我的一個同學問道：

Can't you think about us and how it will make us feel?"

「為什麼你都不考慮我們的感受？」

My 14-year-old self didn't know what to say to her,

or how to explain the pain that I felt in that moment,

當時十四歲的我 不知道該跟她說什麼，

and in every moment that we were forced not to talk about "this."

或是解釋我那一刻感受到的痛，

Her words took me back to the days and nights on the ground in Darfur,

以及每次當我們被強迫 不准談論「這件事」。

她的話把我帶回了 在達爾富爾的日日夜夜，

because the warplanes overhead would swallow any and all noise;

在那裡我們不在喝早茶時聊天，

因為在空中盤旋的戰機 會把一切喧嘩都吞噬；

not only that we don't deserve to be heard

回到那些日子我們不僅被告知 我們不值得被傾聽，

but that we do not have a right to exist.

in that classroom when all the students started taking their seats

教室裡所有的學生開始在椅子上坐好，

despite this renewed feeling that I didn't deserve to be there,

儘管我還是覺得我不配在那裡，

他們的手臂圍繞在我身邊的感覺，

形成穩固的牆壁將我們凝聚在一起。

I choose poetry because it's so visceral.

我選擇寫詩是因為 它是如此發自內心。

When someone is standing in front of you, mind, body and soul,

他的心智、身體、和靈魂 都說著「見證我」，

it's impossible not to become keenly aware of your own humanity.

你不可能感受不到强烈的 自身的人性。

Every day I experience the power of witness,

每一天我都在體驗著 強而有力的見證，

也因為如此，我找回完整自我。

as my shoulders sink under the weight of this stress.

我的肩膀因壓力的重量而垂下。

"The one millionth refugee just left South Sudan.

「一百萬難民剛剛離開了南蘇丹。

I feel my feet rock back and forth on the heels my mother bought,

我感覺我的腳跟在母親買來的鞋裡 不安地前後搖晃，

Do we stay, or is it safer to choose flight?

我們應該留下， 還是搭飛機離開比較安全？

這巨大的腫塊盤踞在我的喉嚨，

as if each of those bodies just found a grave

像是每一具屍體已找到安息之地，

so restless the Nile couldn't hold us together,

全都不得安寧， 尼羅河都不能將我們連結在一起，

They talk about the numbers as if this isn't still happening,

他們說著那些數字， 彷彿這些事情已不再發生，

彷彿那五十萬人不是 剛剛才死在敘利亞，

as if 3,000 aren't still making their final stand

彷彿那三千人沒有在 地中海的海底裡，

as if there aren't entire volumes full of fact sheets about our genocides,

彷彿那些卷宗沒有滿滿 記錄著我們的種族滅絕，

because the warplanes would swallow our voices.

my grandfather didn't want to leave home,

a burning bush without God is just a fire.

燃燒的荊棘裡沒有神 就只是一團火。

I measure the distance between what I know

我思量著，在我知道的事實 跟麥克風之間，

【TED】Emtithal Mahmoud:一位年輕詩人講述達爾富爾的故事（一位年輕詩人講述達爾富爾的故事｜Emtithal Mahmoud）。 (【TED】Emtithal Mahmoud: A young poet tells the story of Darfur (A young poet tells the story of Darfur | Emtithal Mahmoud))

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