consoling solitude | Nguyễn Thị Phương Trâm

The hunger grows impatient
Cravings passing conscience
Obsession beyond moral sense
In moonlight only you!
I reached for a glimmer of self,
Any dignity left to confine,
Just consoling solitude.

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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.