(271) Janet Seidel - Windmills of your mind

The windmills of your mind　　　　Dusty Springfield

Round like a circle in a spiral
Like a wheel within a wheel
Never ending on beginning on an ever-spinning reel
Like a snowball down a mountain or a carnival balloon
Like a carousel that's turning running rings around the moon
Like a clock whose hands are sweeping past the minutes on its face
And the world is like an apple spinning silently in space
Like the circles that you find in the windmills of your mind

Like a tunnel that you follow to a tunnel of its own
Down a hollow to a cavern where the sun has never shone
Like a door that keeps revolving in a half-forgotten dream
Like the ripples from a pebble someone tosses in a stream
Like a clock whose hands are sweeping past the minutes on its face
And the world is like an apple spinning silently in space
Like the circles that you find in the windmills of your mind

Keys that jingle in your pocket
Words that jangle in your head
Why did summer go so quickly ?
Was it something that I said ?
Lovers walk along a shore
And leave their footprints in the sand
Was the sound of distant drumming
Just the fingers of your hand ?
Pictures hanging in a hallway
Or the fragment of a song
Half-remembered names and faces
But to whom do they belong ?
When you knew that it was over
Were you suddenly aware
That the autumn leaves were turning
To the color of her hair ?

Like a circle in a spiral
Like a wheel within a wheel
Never ending or beginning on an ever-spinning reel
As the images unwind
Like the circles that you find in the windmills of your mind

心靈風車　　　　　　達絲提史賓菲爾

像螺旋紋中的圓圈旋轉著
環環相連
轉個不停的輪軸沒有開始或結束
像滾下山坡的雪球或節慶汽球
像對著月球繞圈狂歡作樂
像時鐘的指針走過鐘面上的刻度
世界像顆蘋果，在太空中無聲的旋轉
像你在心中的風車找到的圓圈

就像你隨著隧道進入另一個隧道
就像從一個空洞進入陽光照不到的洞穴
像一扇門，在幾被遺忘的夢境裡不停的旋轉
像有人丟小石子到溪流裡形成的漣漪
像時鐘的指針走過鐘面上的刻度
世界像顆蘋果，在太空中無聲的旋轉
像你在心中的風車找到的圓圈

鑰匙在你口袋裡叮噹作響
話語在你腦海裡喧嘩著
夏天為何走得如此匆促？
那可是我說過的話？
戀人們在海邊漫步
在沙灘上留下了足跡
那遙遠的鼓聲
是否來自你的手指？
陳列在長廊裡的畫作
或一首歌的片段
那些印象已模糊的名字與容顏
它們究竟屬於誰？
當你明白一切已結束
你是否遽然驚覺
秋葉正逐漸變色
變成了她頭髮的顏色

像螺旋紋中的圓圈旋轉
環環相連
轉個不停的輪軸沒有開始或結束
像不變形的畫面
像你在心中的風車找到的圓圈