假面的告白 / A Masked Confession

(Attributed to Jorge Luis Borges — provenance uncertain)

我听过无数天籁之音，却唱不出一首完整的歌。

我看到过一望无际的郊野，那里落日未完成的永恒已经完成。

我爱过一个孤傲优雅的男孩，他的背影在夏日黄昏分外寂寞。

我想起一段意味深长的留白，却当作假面的告白。

A Masked Confession

(attributed — not verified as Borges)

I have heard countless celestial voices, yet never sung a single song to its end.

I have seen boundless meadows, where the unfinished eternity of sunset has already been completed.

I once loved a boy—proud, elegant, his back lonely in the summer dusk.

I remember a silence full of meaning, mistaken for a confession behind a mask.