【绘本文本】The Day War Came

原文就是一首诗歌。里头有一些反复出现的句型值得学习。

The day war came there were flowers on the window sill and my father sang my baby brother back to sleep.

It came across the playground.

It came into my teacher's face.

It brought the roof down and turned my town to rubble.

I ran. Walked over fields and roads and mountains in the cold and mud and rain;

rode on the back of trucks, in buses;

went on a boat that leaked and almost sank;

then up a beach where shoes lay empty in the sand.

But war had followed me.

It was underneath my skin,

behind my eyes,

and in my dreams.

It had taken possession of my heart.

I walked and walked to try to drive war out of myself,

to try to find a place it hadn't reached.

But war was in the way that doors shut when I came down the street.

It was in the way people didn't smile, and turned away.