{"id":6825,"date":"2018-02-12T07:00:21","date_gmt":"2018-02-12T14:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thovanyenson.com\/?p=6825"},"modified":"2026-01-31T21:32:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T03:32:11","slug":"thu-cuoi-nam-cho-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thovanyenson.com\/?p=6825","title":{"rendered":"Th\u01b0 Cu\u1ed1i N\u0103m Cho B\u1ea1n – A Year-End Letter to a Friend"},"content":{"rendered":"

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S\u00e1ng ra \u0111\u1ea7u \u00f3c l\u01a1 m\u01a1
\nV\u1edbi tay g\u1ee1 n\u1ed1t c\u00e1i t\u1edd cu\u1ed1i n\u0103m
\nC\u00e1m \u01a1n l\u1eddi ch\u00fac, c\u00e2u th\u0103m
\nNh\u01b0ng sao T\u1ebft l\u1ea1i l\u1ea1nh c\u0103m th\u1ebf n\u00e0y
\nB\u1ed7ng d\u01b0ng th\u01b0\u01a1ng nh\u1edb t\u1ee5i m\u1ea7y
\nBa t\u00e1m n\u0103m l\u1ebb… m\u1ed9t b\u1ea7y l\u01b0u vong<\/p>\n

Cu\u1ed1i n\u0103m c\u00f3 g\u00ec vui kh\u00f4ng
\nRi\u00eang tao v\u1eabn th\u1ea5y trong l\u00f2ng ch\u00e1n ch\u00ea
\nV\u1eabn l\u00e0 nh\u1edb n\u01b0\u1edbc th\u01b0\u01a1ng qu\u00ea
\n\u01af\u1edbc m\u01a1 c\u00f3 l\u00fac quay v\u1ec1 c\u1ed1 h\u01b0\u01a1ng
\nTr\u1eddi \u01a1i c\u1ed9ng s\u1ea3n thi\u00ean \u0111\u01b0\u1eddng
\nM\u1ed9t b\u1ea7y qu\u1ef7 d\u1eef, m\u1ed9t ph\u01b0\u1eddng y\u00eau ma<\/p>\n

L\u1ea7n tay \u0111\u1ebfm tu\u1ed5i th\u1ea5y gi\u00e0
\nKh\u00f4ng bi\u1ebft c\u00f2n th\u1ea5y qu\u00ea nh\u00e0 n\u1eefa ch\u0103ng
\nM\u1ed9t th\u1eddi B\u1ea3o Qu\u1ed1c Tr\u1ea5n Kh\u00f4ng
\nL\u01b0ng tr\u1eddi g\u00e3y c\u00e1nh
\nN\u00e1t l\u00f2ng xa bay
\nBa t\u00e1m n\u0103m v\u1eabn c\u00f2n \u0111\u00e2y
\nM\u1ed7i cu\u1ed1i n\u0103m l\u00f2ng c\u1ee9 quay qu\u1eaft bu\u1ed3n<\/p>\n

Ng\u00e0y cu\u1ed1i n\u0103m 2013<\/em><\/p>\n

<\/br>
\nA Year-End Letter to a Friend<\/strong>
\n<\/br><\/p>\n

I wake at dawn, my thoughts still blurred,
\nreach out to tear the final page of the year.
\nThank you for the wishes, the words of care\u2014
\nyet why does Tet feel so bitterly cold this year?<\/p>\n

Suddenly I miss you all, my friends,
\nthirty-eight long years\u2026 a scattered band in exile.<\/p>\n

Is there anything joyful at the year\u2019s end?
\nFor me, the heart still feels worn and weary.
\nStill missing the land, still loving the homeland,
\nstill dreaming, at times, of returning to native soil.<\/p>\n

Oh heaven of communism\u2014
\nwhat a lie:
\na pack of demons, a league of devils in disguise.<\/p>\n

I count my years; the weight of age is clear,
\nUnsure if home will ever reappear.
\nOnce sworn to hold the sky for my own land,
\nMy wings gave way before the last command.
\nThirty-eight years linger, still remain,
\nEach year\u2019s last night returns the same old pain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

S\u00e1ng ra \u0111\u1ea7u \u00f3c l\u01a1 m\u01a1 \/ V\u1edbi tay g\u1edf n\u1ed1t c\u00e1i t\u1edd cu\u1ed1i n\u0103m \/ C\u00e1m \u01a1n l\u1eddi ch\u00fac, c\u00e2u th\u0103m \/ Nh\u01b0ng sao T\u1ebft l\u1ea1i l\u1ea1nh c\u0103m th\u1ebf n\u00e0y<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,9,1,16,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thovanyenson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6825"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thovanyenson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thovanyenson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thovanyenson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thovanyenson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6825"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/thovanyenson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6825\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18833,"href":"https:\/\/thovanyenson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6825\/revisions\/18833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thovanyenson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thovanyenson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thovanyenson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}