牵一只蜗牛去散步    作者：张文亮

上帝给我一个任务，叫我牵一只蜗牛去散步。我不能走得太快，蜗牛已经尽力爬，每次总是挪那么一点点。

我催它，我唬它，我责备它，蜗牛用抱歉的眼光看着我，仿佛说：「人家已经尽了全力！」
我拉它，我扯，我甚至想踢它，蜗牛受了伤，它流着汗，喘着气，往前爬……

真奇怪，为什么上帝要我牵一只蜗牛去散步？

「上帝啊！为什么？」 天上一片安静。

「 唉！也许上帝去抓蜗牛了！」好吧！松手吧！

反正上帝不管了，我还管什么？任蜗牛往前爬，我在后面生闷气。

咦？我闻到花香，原来这边有个花园。

我感到微风吹来， 原来夜里的风这么温柔。

慢着！我听到鸟声，我听到虫鸣，我看到满天的星斗多亮丽。

咦？以前怎么没有这些体会？

我忽然想起来，莫非是我弄错了！

原来上帝是叫蜗牛牵我去散步。

Take a Snail For a Walk 

By Zhang Wenliang (Taiwan)

God told me to take a snail for a walk, which I did
I couldn’t walk too fast for the snail had done its best, each time inching a bit

I urged, yelled, and scolded it. Having used all its might the snail gave me a sorry look

I dragged, pulled and even thought of kicking it.  But sweating and panting, injured snail all-effort took  

How odd it was to walk a snail
Heavenly silence gave no detail
Could God go catching snails? I sighed and let go
Since God left us alone, why should I follow so?

On crawled the snail, followed by sulky me wanting to cry
But I sniffed the fragrance of flowers and discovered a garden there lie
I first ever felt the gentle wind as it blew in the night
I then heard the chirping birds, I then heard the buzzing bugs. And I wanna hold it tight

Twinkling stars in the sky and I remembered what I had missed walking fast by
God’s message suddenly sank into mind
He meant the snail to walk me as now I find