Lonely London 01

On The Tube

나는 울고 있었다

노랫소리를 흥얼거리고 있을 거라 생각했지만

나는 울고 있었다

텅빈 기차안에서 무언가를 읽고 지나가는 시간을 삼키려 할때,

나는 울고 있었다

나의 울음 소리를 들었을때 세상보다 놀란 건

나였고,

그래서 더욱

나는 울게 되었다.

흐르는 무엇은 없었지만, 목으로 가슴으로

나는 울고 있었다.

기차가 역에 도착했을때, 통곡은 침묵으로 변했고,

나는 울음을 멈춰야 했고,

그리고 다시 걸었고,

나는 울지 않았다.

-빅토리아 라인 튜브안에서-

I was crying.

I thought I was humming a song,
but I was crying.

In the empty carriage,
trying to swallow time
by reading something as it passed,
I was crying.

When I heard my own sobs,
the one more startled than the world
was myself,
and so, even more,
I cried.

Though nothing flowed,
through my throat, through my chest,
I was crying.

When the train reached the station,
lament turned into silence.
I had to stop crying.
And I walked again.
I was no longer crying.

-Victoria Line, Inside the Tube-