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.

_____

14.10.20

________

“Clear and sweet is my soul, 

and clear and sweet is all 

that is not my soul.”

Walt Whitman


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.

By Nguyễn Thị Phương Trâm

There's magic in translating a body of work from one language to another.

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