(dịch từ "A Love of My Life" by khêkinhkha)
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Nam
Khê Kinh Kha
I wish I were a poet like you, I would express my feelings for you in a love poem.
Has it really been that long, my dear romance lawyer? Though I know it has, it’s amazing to me how my life has been changed since the day I met you at the book signing section at the Barnes & Noble bookstore. From the distance, I admired that long, long, black shiny hair running down your shoulder and ending somewhere behind your back. Your big eyes, kind of black mixed with gray, are very different for oriental women. When you look up to me from the signing table, I can feel the magic in them. They really took away my breath. I remember you had asked me a few times to whom you should sign the book for before I could reply: “ To Joe, no... , I meant “To Nam with love...”. You smiled, wrote and signed... Then you said, “ I like your name, my brother’s name is Nam too, meaning Viet Nam...” “Mine’s too, my dad gave me that Vietnamese name. He loves Viet Nam. He was there in the late 60s”.
Five years have passed with full of memories and challenge for me. This five year relationship has changed my life from dull and boring to fun and exciting. But things did not come smoothly for me. At first I got so many strike outs. I was very focused on winning your heart but getting nowhere. Even though I feel you kind of like me but I cannot get you to response to my love. I sent you flowers, gifts, letters, books and more flowers. I was so frustrated and depressed. Even worse, one day I found out that some young lawyer has stolen your heart, I almost gave up until one day I told my Vietnamese college buddy all about you and my problems, he said that I was focusing on the wrong people, and that my problems can be fixed but need planning and time. I told him I got a lot of time but planning? I don’t have a clue. So he jogged down a few steps I need to do to “tấn công” you. He also promised to help me but with a price tag. A few six packs of Heineken and “đồ nhậu” each weekend when I am in training. I think it’s worth it, beside he is my college buddy and I will also do some “nhậu rai rai” with him while we are working on the “chiến lược” any way. My buddy kept on asking why in the world I want to “hành hạ” my “cuộc đời”. Chasing a Vietnamese girl who has brain and look is just like commit suicide or “đời tàn trong ngõ hẹp” or something like that. He said this kind of girls is so “làm tàng, khó chịu” and “õng a õng ẹo”. According to him, dating a Vietnamese girl with brain and look, from a large family is just like dating with everyone in the family from grandma, grandpa to parents, siblings, neplews, nices, uncles, aunts and pets... The whole nine yard. That is why he said I focused on the wrong people, and that I need to win the hearts of those around you first.
After that it is an easy road to your heart, and the rest is history.
Five years, my darling. Five precious years full of sweet and fun memories. Often, I just simply close my eyes and think of you. I will see you completely. If I think of summer, I see you lying on the beach, soaking up the sun. I would see your hair spread out on the sand and flutter slightly in the ocean breeze. I would see us walking hands in hands beneath the Milky Way in the summer nights. And I would see us making love for the first time in my mini van, during the fireworks of the evening of 4th of July, five years ago.
where will you be
in this world when you leave
will you go by my homeland
will you say hello to my Vietnam
will you kiss my mom and my sisters
will you hug my friends and my lover
will you embrace my poor people
will you wander the dried rice fields
will you walk the dirt roads
will you stroll the burnt forests
will you climb the injured mountains
will you swim the pitiful rivers
Autumn leaves
please!
Nam
KhêKinhKha
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