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Nguyễn Thị Phương Trâm | Why am I so changeable? (2)

Nguyễn Thị Phương Trâm, the poet and translator, born 1971 in Phu Nhuan, Saigon, Vietnam. The pharmacist currently lives and works in Western Sydney, Australia.

Con Dao

by Nguyễn Thị Phương Trâm

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Why am I so changeable?

I change my face

I change my place

I change the state of my fate.

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Why such a mundane insignificant query?

Ask me why the water is green

The Sun so mean

Time taking away my sheen.

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Ask me why the sky is blue

Why won’t you

Why won’t you stay true?

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Why, why, why you ask.

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Think.

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Maybe I don’t want to be found

I prefer darkness black and sound.

Inward bound.

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July 12, 2020

By Nguyễn Thị Phương Trâm

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