LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT
I
want to amass, darling, all clouds in the sky
To
imprint in it a First Love forever to reify!
Many
a time I contemplate the horizon blue
And
ask myself if it is truth or dreamy dew?
This
love has happened without expectation;
Is
it a dead certainty or a quick evaporation?
I
feel like a dry desert luckily receiving rain
To
turn a torrid terrain into a fertile domain.
Should
I respond in full swing to my heart
Or
consider it a lightning flashing like a dart
That
bursts out, glorious but brief as a spark,
Then
dies out and sink into the infinite dark
For
my heart to writhe, in its prison to lout
To
invisible railings impossible to get out.
Oh
my lover!
Open
up the whole immense heavens real
So
that I can worship my love, the ideal!...
Translation by THANH-THANH