Reverently dedicated to my dear Dad’s spirit<\/em><\/p>\nWhilst boarding the aircraft to fly towards the ocean
\nI suddenly pitied my father, tears flowing out of emotion.
\nWhen that April national calamity forced me to flee
\nI left our country piloting my plane to the sea.<\/p>\n
Parted from parents because of the bloodshed,
\nSo many years in high wind and heavy rain overhead
\nAnd finally came flooded with distress one day
\nI did not know it was the last goodbye for ever to say!<\/p>\n
Oh, dear Dad, how could I know, on your part
\nYou wished each drop of blood to return to your heart.
\nSo many years you had desperately inquired after me
\nAnxiously fearing a “killed in action” notice to see.<\/p>\n
Oh, dear Dad! I shall never forget that bad day
\nI learned the sad news that you had passed away:
\nI became numb with grief, tears unable to flow;
\nI wanted to cry but burst out laughing madly in woe.<\/p>\n
Forty eight years, I have not once returned
\nAnd have neither fulfilled citizen obligations so yearned.
\nIn this foreign land how I feel an unsuitable location:
\nDays after days only to think of means of sustentation.<\/p>\n
Oh, dear Dad! an innermost storm has arisen; it boils;
\nYour precious admonition has since spinned into coils
\nTo tie tightly around my heart, imprint in my mind,
\nSo that times I compress my lips blood to ooze to bind.<\/p>\n
“The country is in ruins! To strive to be a worthy man
\nYou must try to become useful through your life’s span!
\nHold your head up, my son! to be a Viet youth, an heir
\nTo our ancestors’ heroic examples that are still there!”<\/p>\n
Oh, dear Dad! I have always pondered on my concern
\nAbout living in exile while nurturing the hope of return.
\nBut days have passed and months elapsed, shamefast,
\nMy hair has turned grey but the ocean is still vast.<\/p>\n
Like a tree for almost a \bhalf of a century uprooted already
\nNow replanted in a foreign region, how hard to steady!
\nHaving a homeland but not having a space
\nFor me to get back to find a sheltering place!<\/p>\n
I boarded the plane to head towards the waves
\nTo go to Atlanta but felt as to Vung Tau that craves…
\nI was staggered and tried to restrain my pain
\nFor fear of bursting into tears mixed with bloodstain.<\/p>\n
THANH-THANH
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