But, I love my husband more than my children. | Nguyễn Thị Phương Trâm

Trâm, Khánh

as clear as a cloudless day
a cliché
I know you love me

each word is the tip of your index finger
it touches my heart
massaging a shrivelled
desiccated
arid
heart

my heart now oozes
a bloody mess
the verses of poetry

but
I love my husband
more than my children.

you must learn to let me go
you must learn the grace
to say
goodbye..

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.

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