FANTASTIC DREAM POEM
By night, worried, hearing that much more people died
From China to the whole Europe
People’s screams of complaint cause grief to the earth
The Coronavirus war has broken out all the five continents.
By night, in dream, encountering the Nature Creator
He says that he is despairing and anxious
You are the very ones causing the disaster, aren’t you?
Find out those who are spreading the miseries.
By night, full of terror, hearing the viruses saying:
They are incarnate beings living throughout the earth
Long to kill all the masterminds of plague
The ones who are greedy, deceitful and cruel.
By night, are the ghostly spirits of someones staggering to and fro?
Are souls of victims crying so loud that the time broken?
Those who have sowed the disaster into the good persons unjustly
Karma retribution would fall down destroying their greed and cruelty.
By night, many ghosts have appeared or hidden harassing
Because of the virus war has been spreading all over the globe
The atmosphere is full of smell of fishy blood mixed into soil
In suffocation, where would all living creatures run to?
By night, in fantastic dream, meeting God who is saving souls
This war is bearing up the heavy human suffering
Together pursuit the masterminds of this crime
Keep the peace, and keep the earth safe.
Poet: Ngoc Le Ninh (Vietnammese)
Translator: Linh Vu (American)
