WHAT I SEE ON THE GLOOMY SKY OF TO DAY ? / poem by THE PHONG.
What I see on the gloomy sky of to day ?
poem by THE PHONG.
What did I see,
apart from blood stained rolls of barbed wire
What did I see,
a city besieged
What diid I see,
cops outnumbered people in the streets
What did I see,
soldiers werw even more numerous than cops:
At the crossroads to day,
and old woman is screming over the loss of her son
He quit school
smashed everything on his road to the future
Her frail body in clothes whiter than whitness fell on
the bitumen road
Have you died,
my sister aged only eighteen
who has not known love
You have left us,
cowards of thirty years of age
Who will write two words Vietnam
on the gloomy sky of today?
I look forward to seeing
a horizon bathed in blood
"Down with tyranny
down with repression !"
What I see,
alas my shortsighted eyes could not see far
What did I see,
my barefooted people with mourning bands
on their loose and dreary hair
bursting into tears
What did I see,
many newborn children
refusing to live in this monstrous world
What did I see,
sisters and mothers awaiting their jailed
brothers and sons
The sight of schoogirls tearing their coats
to make banderoles haunted me
I shouted to exhort others to rebellion.
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Saigon, Sept., 15, 1963.
THEPHONG.
( from 'Asian Morning, Western Music, poems by THEPHONG'
First published by Dai Nam Van Hien Books, Saigon 1974.
This Edition, Jan., 2012- Ho Chi Minh City , p. 64,65).
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