为你读诗——我用什么才能留住你

背景音乐：
Heinrich Schiff,Samuel Sanders - Saint-Saëns：Le Carnaval des Animaux - Le Cygne

I offer you lean streets, desperate sunsets, the moon of the jagged suburbs.

I offer you the bitterness of a man who has looked long and long at the lonely moon.

I offer you my ancestors, my dead men, the ghosts that living men have honoured in bronze:

my father's father killed in the frontier of Buenos Aires, two bullets through his lungs, bearded and dead, wrapped by his soldiers in the hide of a cow;

‍ ‍ ‍ ‍ ‍ ‍ ‍ my mother's grandfather -just twenty-four- heading a charge of three hundred men in Perú, now ghosts on vanished horses.

I offer you whatever insight my books may hold.

whatever manliness or humour my life.

I offer you the loyalty of a man who has never been loyal.

the central heart that deals not in words, traffics not with dreams and is untouched by time, by joy, by adversities.

I offer you the memory of a yellow rose seen at sunset, years before you were born.

I offer you explanations of yourself, theories about yourself, authentic and surprising news of yourself.

I can give you my loneliness, my darkness, the hunger of my heart;

I am trying to bribe you with uncertainty, with danger, with defeat.

作者： 博尔赫斯