From: NGUYỄN VÂN TÙNG <
Date: Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 12:43 PM
Subject: Thơ: Từ ngày bác vô đây ...???
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Thơ:
Từ ngày bác vô đây...!!??
Before you guys arrived in here
I was not even born yet
Mom walked to school each morning
Rosy cheeks, a sweet sixteen
After you came, suddenly one
day
Grandpa was persecuted and imprisoned
Every night Grandma shed mournful
tears
Mom felt sullen -- her
innocence was lost
Two years passed from the day
you came
On a wintry morning which shrouded
in mist
Armed with guns, you came knocking
at our door
And whisked Mom away to a labor
camp
After one month, Mom returned
home
Nothing but skin and bones
Embracing Grandma, she wept:
They raped me, Ma, gang-raped
and all!
And so I was born, a fatherless
child
Grandma passed away, leaving
Mom penniless
Mom scraped a living to support
me
Dad was all the while anybody's
guess!
Eighteen years after you came
We went totally broke
Mom died of a terminal illness
Now then, what's left but my
own body to trade?
Almost twenty years after you came
At sixteen, my body withered --
hardly a dish
I toiled from dawn to dusk
In return just for a loaf of bread!
__._,_.___
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