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THE WRITERS POST (ISSN: 1527-5467) VOLUME 4 NUMBER 2 JUL 2002
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DIEN NGHI
___________________________ A P R I L
Getting up at broken
news in that cursed April The enemy was clenching
its claws against Saigon warships deserted, left
the port behind and red rockets kept on
roaring over our skies A young wife awaiting
her lover at the alley gate homless, field
boots...littered all round square early rain poured over
our Capital, over our fates as though Heaven and
Earth were mouring for our nightmares Our wounded friends
were soon expelled from hospital’s
compounds dragging their disable
bodies outside, around military units dipersed
- war came to the end VC, did you still
behave like men? (*) A young soldier refused
to lay down his arm confronted his foes,
under our Colors he died rather dead than red,
he defended our honor for Vietnam History
will be forever starlighted On foreign land,
indelible sorrow, retrospective April facing one’s shade at
nights pondering on right, evil from two borders South,
North, where’s Justice, where’s shame? who wins? who loses? at
the end of the game? This enterpretation by
Y Yen · THE
WRITERS POST
(ISSN: 1527-5467), Volume 4,
Number 2 July 2002
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