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    MARRIAGE-MINDED     *  Thanh Lan’s poetry

(suy gẫm về tình nhân loại ~
Meditation about Humanity)

        A man full of prejudice
       Narrow-minded and selfish
       Asked me to be his wife
       There are other men near by!
  
       For my husband I would have
       A polite and humble man
       Who has everything I don't
       Teaches me right when I'm wrong

       He could become my own wings
       So that I can easily fly
       Then fulfill a million dreams
       Love me tender when he smiles

       I don't have a million dreams
       I am not fond of hunger
       Of massacre and of terror
       All those have been my bad dreams.

       If I was a wealthy man
       I would chose the girl I am
       To go all around the world
       Give happiness to the poor

       I won't take a demi cent
       From what he would like to give
       I have known misery myself
       I won't rob from my own sis'

       We are brothers and sisters
       We lost each other one day
       So far we can't remember
       Even recognize each face.

       The look might be different
       We are black, white, yellow, red
       One huge family, one root
       See that? We are all human.

       I could love such a poor guy
       So fool, so idealistic
       That he could give his own life
       To dry up the Pacific.

      People would live in one land
      No storm, no fear, no frontier
      A vast and promising land
      The sky would always be clear.

 

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