Page 65 - Dragon&Fairy in Poetry

Thanh Thanh

I ONLY KNOW I LOVE
Original “Chỉ Biết Là Thương” by
KIM THÀNH

I love and that is what I only know.
How to measure up the way we go?
In the green years innocence was on throne;
Today dreams see the sides moss-grown.

In spite of human daily life being hard,
There still is here a loyal heart to guard.
Although one cannot mention to reunite:
That is upon my sentiments more to smite.

my moonlit boudoir came a crane sound,
I looked towards but saw nihility around.
Under the bridge water continues to flow,
My expected love to anxiously uneasy grow.

Many a time my pointless missing in mind
Was a rain my dry forlorn hedge could find,
Or a fresh wind bringing echoes of a flute:
It is myself before two ways, which route?

My side-whiskers to be fondled do deem,
But who is on the roadside to vainly dream?
Anybody helps me compose my rhyme
To nurse ripe my love to await next lifetime.

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