Workers' Poem (8): One Tattered Quilt

January 2024:

一床破被

土木学长

一床破被天下游

建筑工地度春秋

可叹吾生命太苦

笑问苍天合适休

Translation

One Tattered Quilt

With one tattered quilt, the world becomes my bed,

On scaffolded sites, I count the seasons overhead.

Alas, how bitter is this life that grinds me through and through;

I laugh up at Heaven and ask when it will rest.