black flower / a poem by High School from Đà Nẵng
We promise one another / poems from an Asian war /
Don Luce , J. C. Schafer & J. Chagnon selected, introduced ...
b l a ck f l o w e r
by a High School from Đà Nẵng ( Central Vietnam)
You sit in a car
With a foreigner
And wave your hand .
Is it to say goodbye to me ,
Or farewell to days that have passed ?
Your face reminds me of someone I have known ;
I search my mind ,
I try to remember who it might be
Who has waved to me
In bitterness or sympathy .
My God ! It is you ,
Whom I love, whom I have spent happy days with ,
Innocent and small ,
With soft cheeks and full lips
With virgin skin unblemished
With a scent fine as the frailest flower ;
The one I worshipped and respected .
And now all that is finished .
I remember when you were a student not long ago ,
Holding your palm-leaf hat against the sun
To shade your face ,
Pouting when the teacher gave you a low mark .
Now you exchange your flesh for money ,
Dress up in powder nad perfume .
You are call Mrs . or Mis - -
Does it matter ?
You are a bitter glass of whiskey
Which people of a different color, different race
Buy to satisfy themselves .
And I , still just a guy
Who morning and night
Drags his feet to the cafe we knew then ,
Without money enough for two cups of coffee ,
I look at the people ,
I look at you there ;
I look at eveybody .
And I bow my head to wipe tears from my eyes .
I want to take the earth in my hands
And squeeze it so tightly
The meridians will be squashed out of shape
So we, following our seperate lines ,
Will never again meet under the great vault of heaven .
Because a dream is always beautiful ,
Don' t you agree ?
Oh, but the cruel truth is
The day I really say goodbye to you
I will instruct the sun not to rise
So I can hold you in my arms forever,
And will not tremble with fear ;
So no one will see me blish ,
And my shyness will be hidden .
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( from WE PROMISE ONE ANOTHER - poems from an Asian war /
Don Luce, JohnC. Schafer & Jacquelyn Chagnon selected, traducted,
introduced ... / Published by The Indochina Moblile Education Project
Washington , D.C. 1971 - p. 62 - 64 )
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