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Dragon & Fairy In Poetry

Don’t leave me deserted
As guardian angel’s power not asserted.
Time’s moan grown grumpy,
The path to the cemetery is bumpy.

Don’t leave me destitute
And have me hear the hammer brute
That drives the nails on the coffin lid
Mixing with prayers, farewell to bid.

Don’t leave me isolated
As a ghost boat undifferentiated.
The funeral wreaths will fade,
Demons are still heartless to the shade.

Don’t leave me estranged
By insects snapped, torn, deranged;
Wild grass covers the virginal grave
And storms uncertainly rave.

Don’t leave me outcast
Thousands of years from now on at last.
Whose youth will not retrograde?
Don’t leave me betrayed.

Translation by THANH-THANH

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