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Dragon & Fairy In Poetry

INQUIRING AFTER FRIENDS
Original “Thăm Hỏi Bạn” by SƯƠNG LAM

Inquiring after each friend to know that he/she
Is still there, my mind is inundated with glee.
While this life is full of wind and waves, brine,
The underworld is like daydream, moonshine,
Friends to be still alive is my wish to satisfy.

Human bondage is to live and die, live then die;
Thus the most mutually precious thing is love.
Love of parents, spouses, friends, all is above:
That affection is not, never listed for sale
Since our heart has neither measure nor scale.
A sentiment no catty can ever gauge or weigh,
So Love is priceless, its worth none can say.

In spite of anything on earth, shifty, delusive,
If we truly like one another, being unobtrusive,
Then why do we regret a greeting, a salutation?
Let us give, confer to warm our human relation.
We’d rather do it late than never, not to wait;
For affection everybody does want and need
To love and to be loved by other people indeed.
Let us express our sentiment, although belated.

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