don’t
leave me alone
Don’t leave me alone
While the cold
moon is shown
The pagoda’s
bell for the dead
Slowly mingles with the Sutra said
Don’t leave me forlorn
While the dusk
rain is painfully borne
The bare birds with wet feather
To seek for
warmth huddle together
Don’t leave me forsaken
While the sky and
earth are shaken
The jungles are writhing with hurricane
Autumn is biting as a bane
Don’t leave me desolate
And forcibly
forbid me to state
Let me shout out loud my emotion
To mix with the
vast ocean
Don’t leave me solitary
In the night sea
so scary
Worldly steps
wobbler immerse
In the immense
golden universe
Don’t leave me deserted
As guardian
angel’s power not asserted
Time’s moaning groan grumpy
The path to the
cemetery is bumpy
Don’t leave me destitute
And have me hear
the hammer brute
That drives the
nails on the coffin lid
Mixing with
prayers, farewell to bid.
Don’t leave me isolated
As a ghost boat
undifferentiated
The funeral
wreaths will fade
Demons are still
heartless to the shade
Don’t leave me estranged
By insects
snapped, torn, deranged
Wild grass covers
the virginal grave
And storms
uncertainly rave
Don’t leave me outcast
Thousands of years from now on at last
Whose youth will
not retrograde
Don’t leave me
betrayed
Translation by thanh-thanh