I have your word

I have your word

I don’t know 

if it’s enough

But

shovel it in a box 

(you think)

mould it into a convention?

In convention

we are cheats

the worst kind of liars

Be it, but I won’t.

You are free

but I will take 

your words as mine.

Mine alone, 

you know this.

You are free.

You are the eagle, 

the trees

they rhyme 

Do you see?

You are free.

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14.10.20

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“Clear and sweet is my soul, 

and clear and sweet is all 

that is not my soul.”

Walt Whitman

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Nguyễn Thị Phương Trâm, the blogger, poet, and translator, was born in 1971 in Phu Nhuan, Saigon, Vietnam. The pharmacist currently lives and works in Western Sydney, Australia.