文/黄清宝

暮色漫过窗棂时，总有一盏灯在案头等你。它不必是琉璃盏里跳动的烛火，也无需水晶罩下璀璨的钨丝，或许只是书页间一行洇着墨香的文字，在睫羽轻颤的瞬间，忽然漫出暖融融的光。

这盏灯总在最寂静的时刻醒来。当城市的霓虹褪成模糊的光斑，当钟表的滴答声漫过空荡荡的走廊，它便从泛黄的纸页间浮出来，像月光漫过青石板路那样，轻轻漫过失眠者睁开的眼睛。你看那《红楼梦》里潇湘馆的竹影，在灯下忽明忽暗，映着黛玉窗前未写完的诗稿，墨痕里浮着泪的重量；你听那《百年孤独》中的马孔多，在灯影里长出会飞的地毯，让每个孤独的灵魂都能踩着月光，回到记忆的源头。文字在此时化作灯芯，不烧一寸烛泪，只把千年的心事熬成温润的光晕，像母亲坐在床头哼起的摇篮曲，让所有翻涌的焦虑都渐渐沉成湖面的月光。

它也常有微弱的时候。在兵荒马乱的岁月里，它曾是方志敏狱中的一缕微光，在铁窗的缝隙里写下《可爱的中国》，字里行间燃着不灭的星火；在风雨如晦的年代，它曾是沈从文笔下湘西的渡口，让颠沛的灵魂在湘西的月光里找到停泊的岸。这光从不是燎原的烈火，有时细弱如萤火虫的翅，却总能在最浓稠的黑暗里亮起——就像卡夫卡笔下那只不安的甲虫，在荒诞的现实里撞出微光；像加缪笔下的西西弗斯，在推石上山的轮回里，把绝望走成了坚定的路。它知道世间有太多迷途的人，便固执地亮着，像古驿站外的老灯笼，风里雨里都不肯低下头。

后来我们才渐渐明白，这盏灯从不是为了照亮某个具体的答案。它照过李白的酒杯，也映过杜甫的茅庐；它曾陪萧红在呼兰河的雪夜里取暖，也曾随鲁迅在铁屋子里呐喊。它让我们在《活着》里看见福贵牵着老牛的背影，忽然懂得苦难里藏着的韧性；让我们在《小王子》的星球上遇见那朵骄傲的玫瑰，才明白爱里藏着的温柔与责任。它不指点捷径，不承诺坦途，只是在每个迷茫的时刻递过一点光，让我们在文字的褶皱里看见自己的影子——原来那些深夜里辗转的心事，那些欲言又止的孤独，早被千百年前的人写进了诗行。

当世界偶尔沉入黑暗，当我们在生活的迷宫里走失，总会有这样一盏灯在前方等你。它可能藏在图书馆某个落满灰尘的书架上，可能夹在旧日记本的某一页里，也可能只是一句忽然涌上心头的诗。它不喧哗，不耀眼，只是安安静静地亮着，像故乡老屋里那盏永远为归人留着的灯，用最温柔的光告诉你：所有的跋涉都有意义，所有的孤独都能被理解，而那些被文字浸润过的灵魂，永远不会真正迷路。

因为文学这盏灯，从来都亮在回家的路上。

2025/8/21

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黄清宝，1939年出生，中共党员，籍贯江苏江阴市。现居上海市。《中国诗人作家网》会员档案库认证委员，《中国诗人作家网》认证诗人、签约诗人，《一枝红莲文学诗社》签约作家诗人，《世界作家澜韵府诗社》签约作家诗人，《中国诗人作家网》主编。曾创作散文、小说及诗词千余篇，发表于《中国诗人作家网》等网络平台及报刊。荣获首届《凤雏生》国际诗歌大赛优秀奖，五大院士签约诗人卓越文学奖，《金诗星光杯》实力文学奖，以及《中国诗人作家网》主编卓越奖，世界诗歌作协.中国诗人作文学领军人物最高荣誉奖。现为中国诗人作家网执行总编。

🎋🎋Writer's Profile🎋🎋

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.