Su Ziwen: Summer Dreams

This is a special summer

The first summer in twenty-four years without a summer vacation

The summer vacation I used to look forward to every year

Has been replaced by busy work

Another summer vacation, graduation season

I graduated a year ago

足蒸暑土气， 背灼炎天光

The weather in Qiaojia reminds me of these two lines of poetry

It's been a whole year since I left school

Another summer vacation, graduation season

I'm no longer the innocent and simple boy I was that year

Only this scorching sun remains unchanged

My old playmates have all gone their separate ways

After a year of work, we've gradually lost touch

Maybe it's the busyness of work

Various social pressures are coming one after another

After working overtime late at night, I fall asleep as soon as I get back to the dormitory

So last night, stars entered my dreams, and the past reappeared

I like it to be like in that dream

We are clean and simple

And we can be in tune with each other

Rushing through the bustling city

Escaping to a quiet place like Peach Blossom Land

Singing together in the warm sunshine of spring

Enjoying the spring returning to the earth, the gentle rain

In the verdant woods, streams flow, birds sing and flowers bloom

In this season with the freshest air, bathed in sunshine

Together, we get drenched on the blue seaside in summer

Chilled watermelon, soda, ice cream

Walking together at the fireworks festival, a not-too-busy market

And fireworks reflecting the stars

Together we climb high and look far in autumn

To the forest full of maple leaves

In the bleak red maple

I can still play the autumnal thoughts for you

Together we wrap up warmly in winter

Go out and enjoy the snow-covered land

Have fun making snowmen and having snowball fights

And we can warm ourselves by the fire in the winter night

I miss you very much, even though I'm too busy to contact you on weekdays

I slept vaguely in my dream, but your past smiles were very clear

Although there are different people around me at different stages

But we will always be friends

My friends,

Even though we haven't gotten together

But the laughter of the past, the sweat we shed together

Will forever be engraved in my heart

Su Shi said, : “A drunken reunion is a previous fate, the wind and rain disperse, where do we drift?”

But I say, three or five nights of drinking with close friends, apricot blossoms and spring rain, people are not old

Even if it's a parting like a fleeting cloud, ten years of flowing water

We can still laugh and our feelings remain the same.