Cover version of "Isn't She Lovely" by Anthem Lights, the original song by Stevie Wonder.
Sang by Jeffmin Lin and Christopher Lin, piano accompaniment by Jeffmin Lin.
Mama.
By Greenwood
I thought my love for my kids was
More than my mama’s love for me
Because -
My mama beat me
When I was naughty;
My mama
Shouted at me when
I wasn’t doing well in school and I -
I knew, I just
Knew that
I was growing further apart
From her heart -
As time went by.
Then
I had my own kids
I swore I would
Never
Hurt their feelings
As my mama did.
But one day,
Something happened.
It was a hot summer day;
My son was learning to drive.
He wasn’t sure of the direction;
I told him, confidently:
“This is the direction
Of EAST and not WEST.”
But he insisted:
“This is the direction
Of WEST and not EAST.”
We had argued back
And forth;
Before I knew it,
I began to shout
And scream and I
Just wanted to convince him that
I was right.
My son
Broke down in tears and cried
“Why do you have to be so critical?”
I froze -
It sounded so familiar to me.
I recall
I once said that
To my mama.
I remember
How I felt at the time;
She did not see all the
Anger built up in me
Just like I did not see all the
Anger built up in my son.
I was so withdrawn from her and
Kept everything inside and I -
I could see that
My son felt the same way.
I have tried hard to be
A kind mama;
A mama
Who is different
From the old generation
But I see my mama in me.
In that moment,
My heart was touched
In the way that
It had never been touched before.
----July 28, 2017
妈 妈
英文作者 青 木
中文翻译 花照水
我一直认为
我对我孩子的爱
超过我妈妈对我
当我淘气时
妈妈揍我
当我在学校表现不够好时
妈妈责骂我
随着我的长大
内心对妈妈变得抗拒
情感上也和妈妈逐渐疏离
当我有了自己的孩子
我暗自发誓
我一定不会像妈妈
曾经做的那样
使孩子的情感受到压抑
但是，一天
事情发生得很突然
那是一个炎热的夏日
儿子学习驾驶
他不能确定方向
我告诉他
这是东不是西
但他认为
这不是东而是西
我们开始争执
突然我情绪失控
对他大声喊叫
只想让他信服
我是对的
儿子委屈得落泪哭泣
妈妈，您为什么
对我如此苛责严厉
我瞬时呆住了
这和我以前的经历
如此相似
我也曾对妈妈这样说过
并记得
当时我的伤心委屈
但妈妈并不明白
我的感受
就像刚才
我对儿子感受的忽视
突然间，我体会到
儿子的伤心和委屈
我一直努力做一个
好妈妈
一个与上一代不同的妈妈
但在不知不觉间
却继承了
妈妈的教育方式
那一刻
我的心
深受触动
这种触动
令我反省
2017，7，28
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