
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
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.