文/黃清寶
暮色漫過窗欞時，總有一盞燈在案頭等你。它不必是琉璃盞里跳動的燭火，也無需水晶罩下璀璨的鎢絲，或許只是書頁間一行洇著墨香的文字，在睫羽輕顫的瞬間，忽然漫出暖融融的光。
這盞燈總在最寂靜的時刻醒來。當城市的霓虹褪成模糊的光斑，當鐘表的滴答聲漫過空蕩蕩的走廊，它便從泛黃的紙頁間浮出來，像月光漫過青石板路那樣，輕輕漫過失眠者睜開的眼睛。你看那《紅樓夢》里瀟湘館的竹影，在燈下忽明忽暗，映著黛玉窗前未寫完的詩稿，墨痕里浮著淚的重量；你聽那《百年孤獨》中的馬孔多，在燈影里長出會飛的地毯，讓每個孤獨的靈魂都能踩著月光，回到記憶的源頭。文字在此時化作燈芯，不燒一寸燭淚，只把千年的心事熬成溫潤的光暈，像母親坐在床頭哼起的搖籃曲，讓所有翻涌的焦慮都漸漸沉成湖面的月光。
它也常有微弱的時候。在兵荒馬亂的歲月里，它曾是方志敏獄中的一縷微光，在鐵窗的縫隙里寫下《可愛的中國》，字里行間燃著不滅的星火；在風雨如晦的年代，它曾是沈從文筆下湘西的渡口，讓顛沛的靈魂在湘西的月光里找到停泊的岸。這光從不是燎原的烈火，有時細弱如螢火蟲的翅，卻總能在最濃稠的黑暗里亮起——就像卡夫卡筆下那只不安的甲蟲，在荒誕的現(xiàn)實里撞出微光；像加繆筆下的西西弗斯，在推石上山的輪回里，把絕望走成了堅定的路。它知道世間有太多迷途的人，便固執(zhí)地亮著，像古驛站外的老燈籠，風里雨里都不肯低下頭。
后來我們才漸漸明白，這盞燈從不是為了照亮某個具體的答案。它照過李白的酒杯，也映過杜甫的茅廬；它曾陪蕭紅在呼蘭河的雪夜里取暖，也曾隨魯迅在鐵屋子里吶喊。它讓我們在《活著》里看見福貴牽著老牛的背影，忽然懂得苦難里藏著的韌性；讓我們在《小王子》的星球上遇見那朵驕傲的玫瑰，才明白愛里藏著的溫柔與責任。它不指點捷徑，不承諾坦途，只是在每個迷茫的時刻遞過一點光，讓我們在文字的褶皺里看見自己的影子——原來那些深夜里輾轉的心事，那些欲言又止的孤獨，早被千百年前的人寫進了詩行。
當世界偶爾沉入黑暗，當我們在生活的迷宮里走失，總會有這樣一盞燈在前方等你。它可能藏在圖書館某個落滿灰塵的書架上，可能夾在舊日記本的某一頁里，也可能只是一句忽然涌上心頭的詩。它不喧嘩，不耀眼，只是安安靜靜地亮著，像故鄉(xiāng)老屋里那盞永遠為歸人留著的燈，用最溫柔的光告訴你：所有的跋涉都有意義，所有的孤獨都能被理解，而那些被文字浸潤過的靈魂，永遠不會真正迷路。
因為文學這盞燈，從來都亮在回家的路上。
2025/8/21
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黃清寶，1939年出生，中共黨員，籍貫江蘇江陰市?，F(xiàn)居上海市?！吨袊娙俗骷揖W(wǎng)》會員檔案庫認證委員，《中國詩人作家網(wǎng)》認證詩人、簽約詩人，《一枝紅蓮文學詩社》簽約作家詩人，《世界作家瀾韻府詩社》簽約作家詩人，《中國詩人作家網(wǎng)》主編。曾創(chuàng)作散文、小說及詩詞千余篇，發(fā)表于《中國詩人作家網(wǎng)》等網(wǎng)絡平臺及報刊。榮獲首屆《鳳雛生》國際詩歌大賽優(yōu)秀獎，五大院士簽約詩人卓越文學獎，《金詩星光杯》實力文學獎，以及《中國詩人作家網(wǎng)》主編卓越獎，世界詩歌作協(xié).中國詩人作文學領軍人物最高榮譽獎?，F(xiàn)為中國詩人作家網(wǎng)執(zhí)行總編。
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Huang Qingbao, born in 1939, is a member of the Communist Party of China. His native place is Jiangyin City, Jiangsu Province, and he now resides in Shanghai City. He is a certification committee member of the Member Archive Database of the Chinese Poets and Writers Network, a certified poet and contracted poet of the Chinese Poets and Writers Network, a contracted writer and poet of the Red Lotus Literary Poetry Society, a contracted writer and poet of the World Writers' Lanyunfu Poetry Society, and the chief editor of the Chinese Poets and Writers Network. He has created more than a thousand pieces of prose, novels, and poems, which have been published on online platforms and newspapers and periodicals such as the Chinese Poets and Writers Network. He has won the Excellence Award of the First Feng Chusheng International Poetry Competition, the Outstanding Literature Award for Poets Contracted by the Five Academicians, the Strength Literature Award of the Golden Poetry Starlight Cup, the Chief Editor's Excellence Award of the Chinese Poets and Writers Network, and the Highest Honor Award for Leading Figures in Literature by the World Poetry Association · Chinese Poets and Writers. Currently, he is the executive chief editor of the Chinese Poets and Writers Network.
