Afar – Prologue

快把星光盛进篮子，
按下宇宙的暂停键！
在无尽沉寂中，
等待下一个“顷刻”。

无人歌颂时间，
他们只是在时间里歌唱。

——也让我静止，
像一叠曝光的胶片，
你可尽情在画面之间涂抹。

——也让我静止，
这样在下一个顷刻，
你就能尝试解开我心中的结。
它由无数时序的思绪交织而成，
人们已然称之为生命本身。

——也让我静止，
这样可以提醒我哪怕形如短暂的，
一丝顾虑，
一份彷徨，
时光中崩解的沙质城堡，
也是不可回溯的远方，
无价的珍宝。

Quickly gather starlight in a basket,
and press the universe’s Pause button!
In endless stillness,
await the next “instant.”

No one sings praises to time;
they merely sing within it.

— And now make me still,
like a stack of exposed film.
So you can freely smudge between frames.

— And now me still.
So in the next instant,
you can try to unravel my soul.
woven from countless threads of thought,
already known as life itself.

— And now make me still,
so that it may remind me:
even threads of doubt,
and hesitation,
Castles of sand upon the passage of time,
Are places afar that no one returns to,
and priceless treasures.