Workers' Poem (5): The Poor

December 2023:

穷人

三和“大神”

初来人间不知苦

潦草半生一身无

转身回望来时路

才知生时为何哭

Translation

The Poor

I stepped into this world I knowing of no pain,

Half a life sketched hastily — I’ve nothing to my name.

I turn and look back down the road I came along,

Only now I understand why, at birth, we cry this song.