Page 381 - Thorn In The Heart

Chinh Nguyên

the beach, laugh loudly and jumps into the loop waves then
swimming in the water. It was his lover, the love was gentle and
growing with the happy time that Nguyen thought he had lost it after
he refused his first lover, Mong-Thuy-Hoa.
The young student tender love was full of the dream for Mong-
Thuy-Hoa, but it was so many things of the sorrow and happy for
Nguyen to think of... He was afraid of war and had no choice to stay
out of it. He knew soon or late he will be a soldier, will die on the
battle front line and Mong-Thuy-Hoa will be painful suffering by the
young window. He left her with his renting heart while she was the
cry. After a year she married with a man, who had power, money
and Mong-Thuy-Hoa had lifetime happy with.
Thu-Thu-Thao brought the happy back to Nguyen by her love
without sorry. Sometimes they went to Thap Ba Pagoda, it built at
the time of the King Che-Bong-Nga, on the top of the hill and nearby
the strait of Nha-Trang city and Xom-Bong village where the people
came to pray for the peace of their lives and wish good luck.

Nguyen always holds Thu-Thu-Thao's low back, stood on top of
the steps at the front right corner of Thap-Ba Pagoda, close to the
small sea pine tree to look down at the Xom-Bong bridge. It
connected Nha-Trang city to Dong-De district and reflected in the
water of strait.
A little further of the distance from the left side of Xom-Bong
bridge is a small island of Goat hamlet, where was about 100 homes.
The people were living by the fishing on the sea since some the small
boats had turned over and the rope hung nets on the sand under
sunlight afternoon.

It was beautiful in the weak light of late afternoon when the sun
is dying on the top of the mountain. The red and yellow lights are
reflecting and glint on the surface of the water, while the gray cloud
is strong and slowly coming. The birds call of each other on the top of
the trees, then fly back their nets with the full-color clouds of the
sunset at the horizon, Xom-Bong bridge appeared in the dim sunlight
of the final day.

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