Page 11 - Thorn In The Heart

Chinh Nguyên

Nowhere the sounds of the canons are echoes in the air,
through the windows into the living room and mixed with the
sad sound of the music. The waves of music seemed a sad
romance song for the young love couple sinking in the short life.
The sounds of music are flying, rolling up as a light whirlwind
on the floor to make the youth hurry to live. They forgot
anything around them even their life to live with the tightened
lover and separated in a hurry without promise for tomorrow.
They had found the short happiness for themselves without
sorrow and cry, cause they do not know what will be happening
for them tomorrow. Some of them may die on the corner of
streets by the bullets flying through their heads, and breasts with
the bodies bloody. Few of them may tear to the parts by the Viet
Cong’s Katyusha rockets barrage into the cities in suddenly at
midnight while the people are sleeping. The thunders explode
the buildings and houses as the fireworks, shaking the ground
and make the people wake up with the fearing cry.

Anywhere in the country, the people have been afraid to die
and carry the sorrow, and tearful along their life. They were
struggles to live for a minute, cry to spend their happiness in a
hurry for a second; late they will be killed by their brother on
another side!

The people lives reflected by the long bloodbath war and led
by the politicians on both sides North and South, where the
youth was increasingly for the bitter frustration and cynical.
Their lives become short in hopeless and selfish for hurry living
that is a dangerous fact for the society and country.

War made life to be short. Also, the youth give their soul to
one of other for remembering and nothing is more important
than love while they are struggling to live and rush their life for
a short time. After all, they leave their lover with the empty soul
to go into the dirty war, and they know that their lover will be
solitary to live with the nightmares. Their lovers will look at the
flares hanging in the sky, listen to the bomb echo with her
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