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