this poem is dedicated to all those faultless and innocent people who lost their lives in the vietnam war of 1954...i know it's impossible for me to actually feel the pain they underwent but as a spectator, as a person who only read about them in her history book(that is all thats left of them!),this is my ode to them!may their souls rest in peace!
i am alive
...but only just
...not happy with my existence any more
...i carry on my shoulders the burden of the whole world
...mine at least
...the ashes of my brother
...the remains of my father
...the agony of all my kith and kin!
life has not been fair to me
...though it showed enough mercy to let me live
...live..to die everyday
...live..to see those millions being left alone
...uncared for..just like me!
...indeed!
...life has shown enough mercy to let me live through it all!
i think about my future
...something that i haven't given much thought
...i am not anxious or scared
...just a little distraught!
don't pity me for i have lived
...survived to see the ruins of a house
...a village
...a nation..once my home!
i have come a long way
...from the streets of where i lived
...to the pages of a history book
...a million people flip through it everyday
...unknown to me..unconcerned too!
...some don't bother too see me
...some stop and stare at my face..trying to guess my story
...but the words written below my photograph
tell the story of my entire being
..."a native of a vietnamese village
...ravaged by U.S. bombing"
i am alive
...but only just
...not happy with my existence any more
...i carry on my shoulders the burden of the whole world
...mine at least
...the ashes of my brother
...the remains of my father
...the agony of all my kith and kin!
life has not been fair to me
...though it showed enough mercy to let me live
...live..to die everyday
...live..to see those millions being left alone
...uncared for..just like me!
...indeed!
...life has shown enough mercy to let me live through it all!
i think about my future
...something that i haven't given much thought
...i am not anxious or scared
...just a little distraught!
don't pity me for i have lived
...survived to see the ruins of a house
...a village
...a nation..once my home!
i have come a long way
...from the streets of where i lived
...to the pages of a history book
...a million people flip through it everyday
...unknown to me..unconcerned too!
...some don't bother too see me
...some stop and stare at my face..trying to guess my story
...but the words written below my photograph
tell the story of my entire being
..."a native of a vietnamese village
...ravaged by U.S. bombing"
posted by simplyme at
4:53 AM
2 Comments:
you are getting magnificent in your poems writing.you really write from your heart and its appreciable that you get into 'being' while writing such masterpieces. u r becoming a classic poet.
war is not good,i know but thats something u gotta fight for your motherland. [if i know the reason for this war and if i am right]
this sacrifice is sacred and worth dying for.though its really heartbreaking that we lose our loved ones for naught.and we can do nothig about it. all we can do is just try that wars never takes place in the future.
hey there...
u know...i once told ritz that u were beautiful...u know y ? coz evrybody cannot have the insight to c behind a photograph...smetimes i wonder whether i'm the only crazy person who stares at pictures as if people were to walk srt8 outa them...but wen i read ur poem, i realized that there r other ppl who do it too..i realized that not everybody is blind in this world...
beautiful work...
n this is in context to ur last comment on my last blog...u said i was the most beautiful person u'd ever mer ...but that is not even one percent true...dont u meet ur inner self every nite ? every day ? n if only i knew how to...i wud want u to meet and know sum of the most amazing ppl i hav in my life...THEY r the ones who r beautiful...not me...
neway...take care...
n post some new stuff !
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