Page 13 - Thorn In The Heart

Chinh Nguyên

The sad song figured in Nguyen’s mind of the soldiers, who
was going to the bloodbath field without his promise for the
return date.

Maybe, he will be back with the great victories to help him
hold his lovers tighten and together they will cry for survival. Or
he will be back with his badly wound or lost a part of their
bodies to make their families living in the hardship with helpless
from the military’s benefits. Maybe, he will be back with the
cold blood dead bodies to make his wife dropping into the
bottom of the painful society hole and suffering whole her life.
His children will become the fatherless with cold in the winter,
shortage of food and will be the beggars on the cities streets, or
on the rubbish-heaps for their living.

One day, the young soldier will be back with the bullet that
took out from his body and gives it to his lover as a gift!

All the words of song and music show Nguyen the painful
suffering forms of the young soldier's spouses. These young
ladies always bowed their heads on the front of Christ, or
Buddha statue in prayers, and wish their lovers might have a
chance to alive and go back home in safe.

They always felt so lonely, small in the sad evening to look
at the sunsets with the red clouds as the flame of war, which is
going down behind the mountains in the West. The dark clouds
are covering the sky in the rapidity while the light dews fly in
the air and few of them stopped on the shoulder lonely young
ladies, who were standing in quiet to listen the bombs echo and
waiting for spouses back home.

Also, they were afraid for the exploded thunders, which
break the quiet midnight sleeping city, tear down the buildings,
and killing the people somewhere in the distance. Few minutes
late, the sounds of the Cobra helicopters are strong cutting the
air, while the fire shells are flying, howling, echoing over the

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