TROUBLE OF MIND By THE PHONG - nguồn : tan mạn văn chương / thếphong, 8- 1- 2012 -- bài đăng lại, 16 / 12/ 2023.

 

tản mạn văn chương / thếphong

                                                                  Sunday , 8- 1- 2012

                 TROUBLE OF MIND  

                                  By 

                       THE PHONG

                  translated into English by DAM XUAN CAN 

                                                    

             I' m troubled when you are by my side
             It's  a good thing - then I don't  feel                                                                                         any sadness
            I feel as young as an eighteen year old boy
           When I look at myself in your bright eyes
           You're off today, I'm alone in this highland
           Everything is mute, nor a second is heard, 

                                                my soul is following you

           I only hope there will be moments

                                                                you  think of me
           I know, I know,  you' re just a plain girl
           But I cannot put out of my mind
           Late noon, the car moves up the slope
           I' m standing here, feeling so miserably                                                                                         unhappy
          You've gone, what  will the future hold for us
          When you 're with me I forget all, all, all
          I forget the wretched land which is ours
          I forget all, all, all ...

          I't is raining
                            it's raining hard and strong
          I'm sleeping soundly
          O my girl  
         now that you're over nineteen.

                       Dalat, 1963
                     THE PHONG

                 ( UPLIFTING POEMS
           Dai Nam Van Hien Books, Saigon 1974)