Page 511 - Thorn In The Heart

Chinh Nguyên

white, and the wrinkles had more on their faces. Their step and
talking were slow and tired. I looked at my young widow sisters-in-
laws, all their children, they were living in the suffering of poor, and I
thought of their future without husband and father in my sobbing...

Hong-Cuc who was my lover, She said she was always waiting for
me every time and all her life... You had known our love story from
the time we were a student of Ban-Me-Thuot high school.

At that time, seemed you fell in love with Mong-Thuy-Hoa,
because both of you were close every time and any place, where had
the warm sun, flowers, and spring. Your love was quiet and silent to
watch the beauty of a lover, who ran on the green of the hills to
catch a butterfly under the sunlight. You had run after her with a
wildflower on your hand, you gave to her then four eyes had sight of
a glance, and both of you laughed loudly...

I was different than you... Hong-Cuc and I had a lot of good time
after class; we went to the waterfall Drayling at Chi-Lang
resettlement village to watch the power of water, it was soft in the
streams but really strong when it reunited to build up its power. It
could destroy anything which blocks its forward way. While I looked
at the waterfall, I had a dream of united of the people to love and
sharing. I had taken her to go to the flowers forest at 14th bridge to
watch the yellow flowers, which were full on the branch and without
leaves. Sometime breeze plaid with them in the air, and put them on
the surface of the 14th river, the yellow flowers drifted downstream
and lotted in the water.

I had told her about how I love her since sometimes we felt into
our emotion of passion by kissing, touching and we hold of each
another tightly while we were rolling on the slope of the green hill...

I learned how to be gentle, soft with love and share with the
people, how to stand up with strongly to resist Communist invader.
She had learned how to waiting for me, how to cry at midnight after
she was wake up by the echo of the sound of the cannon shell. She

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