Lê Ðình Nhất-Lang


Can’t Be Otherwise

Those brothers
Have betrayed us
Have thrown us into jail
Have dyed our skins red
Have sacrificed our lives
For their impulsive dreams
Those brothers
Still deceive us
Still deprive us of our light, our voice
Still threaten us
With guns and food
Beyond their imagination
We
Under this deep dark sky
Day in and day out
Never ever cease
Thinking about them
Praying
    And
        Vowing

 

Original: Không thể khác – Bùi Chát
Vertaling: Lê Ðình Nhất-Lang
Uit: One-rhyme Poems – Bài thơ một vần, Eva Tas Books

 


Cái Đình - 2011