Now I am eighty-six springs old

So many old springs I lived in Vietnam

Since I left my country and village

Stepping into a strange land, no more longing to return

Here it is comfortable beyond complaint

Air is clean, every aspect beautiful and happy

Food and drink abundant, full of flavor

Medicine complete, why fear sickness or decline

Study, work, whatever one wants

Offices, schools, playing fields, want anything at once

Standing, going, morning and evening, night and day

In the air, under water, reach out and it's there

Cars, trains, with priority

Want to travel, go anywhere you please

Autumn winter spring summer, four seasons

Want to eat, live, go — all ready

Tall houses, wide doors, spacious

Flower garden in front, rows marked behind

Security, firefighting come first

Living like this, what is there to fear

Whoever wants to return to the old homeland, go

I don't care at all, first because heaven is high

Second because life has been full of storms

So I leave it all to high heaven

My heart still faithful, still loyal

Can no longer return, respectfully wishing well

Joy is sweet as roasted sugarcane

Sunk in hardship of stone and iron, coming and going, love is exhausted

Suffering is something inborn

Rise and fall, discouragement, all ordinary, nothing strange

The road, the goal, we go

Just go, go on, and we will arrive

Don't indulge too much in play

Be diligent and hardworking, seek good friends

Life's road, little smooth, much rough

Envy is plenty, but affection is rare

Even so let us be cheerful

Morning and evening we keep smiles like flowers

Keep our heart peaceful and harmonious

Avoid getting angry, then we are content

Let the work flow smoothly

Near and far good friends, on hills and in ravines

From family to friends

Someone to confide in, to shelter and warm the heart

Sleep and eat, we take it easy

For relief we keep a wholehearted, sincere mind

Laughter and voice warm and deep

A lifetime keeping deep affection is good

Two years four months, living at An's house

Kitchen, water, hygiene — Toàn took care of

Doctors, medicine, An heroically helped

That is happiness, to be shared together

This year, changing place, moving elsewhere

Heart restless, eyes overflowing with tears

One stays, one goes, gut aching

Sitting anxious, heart unsettled

To whom can I tell my heart

Loving father, missing mother, thinking of repaying kindness

Hoping gradually to nurture and provide

If things go smoothly, both parents can rely on it

Who knew the dream would shatter and break

The 28th of August is when life changed

Father and mother change residence today

Father and mother move to Dung's, eyes stinging with tears

Sell the house, then live with whom?

An and Toàn have taken it on, have supported father

Place to eat, place to live, all ready

Morning and evening, caring for parents, easing sorrow

Wishing father and mother long life

Medicine plentiful, available when needed

Whatever is needed, morning night and day

Children and grandchildren cheerful, ready to help at once

Old age lived like this is like an immortal

Such devotion of children, praised everywhere

The child's heart shines bright like a lamp

The words gratitude and filial piety, abundant, satisfying the heart

VN 21, of Đoàn Phùng

Hoping to help Vietnam, build together

Projects carried out, moving forward

People rich, country strong, no more destitution

Inside and out, united, with one mind

No factions, no cliques, no ground for conflict

Following the same principle, for the nation's cause

Security, prosperity, happiness without end

Household matters, thorough, all done

Husband healthy, oh joy, temporarily content

Free of chores, visiting relatives

Seeing everyone well, wishing and hoping

Words of greeting, to the northern relatives

Whether there, or Tuấn, still uneasy

Bow to Buddha, bow to Heaven, pity the suffering

To recover quickly, to be at ease

Heard the aunt is sick, for many days now

How the illness is, tell so I may know

Uncle Tá, is he peaceful and well?

Văn, Quang, and Ích, no news now

Wishing good health, above all

Settled livelihood, all things good

Above and below in harmony, that is happiness

Heaven blesses, Buddha blesses, virtue and grace abundant

Remember each other's birthdays

Greetings and blessings come first, mind them

A gift, timely and suitable

The bond of friendship, deep affection remembered for life

Men and women, old and young, everyone

Remember the advice, remember the written words

Should not hold back anything

If you forget the birthday, what love remains

Both born into a woman's life

Same day, same month, differing only in year

Forty-five, forty-seven, all of it

Livelihood has its share, leisure, no need to worry

Family keeping close affection

Husband loving, children precious, community near and dear

In speech and conduct, sensible

That is happiness, Thuấn and Nghiêu show the way

Family and society cherish

Minh-Châu, a bright example, to follow

October, the sixteenth, advancing from poverty

From poverty advancing, with gentle nature, then becoming rich

So conduct oneself before and after

A consistent heart will surely be loved

This day, last year, what year

This day, last year, was there anything unusual?

My heart suddenly was injured

Had to go to hospital, seeking to operate at once

Wife and children keeping vigil night and day

So much effort and cost, who fully knows

One-year anniversary still lingers

Gratitude remembered forever, truly great

Also lucky to meet a warm-hearted country

Met doctors and medicine, greatly recovered at once

Now added years of seniority

That is the grace bestowed by heaven

If lost back then, all dreams gone

The heart of people not lost, no worry, truly glad

I hear you have joyful news

Ask who, the name, is it deeply in love?

February 16, getting married

Your husband's work, his family lineage, how is it?

After the wedding, how is the household?

Living together, or have you bought a house?

Living apart in the West is no joke

Hoping all is well, being the best in the region

Be happy, forget all sorrow

Keep your health, live longer than others

To work, to enjoy, to flourish

Be diligent, endure hardship, don't be lazy or fear difficulty

Family matters must be discussed

Deep affection must be kept, don't complain to outsiders

Weigh matters that are wrong

Do not repeat them, or long days will bring suffering

Since we met, fleetingly, ten springs

When shall we meet again, meet a second time

Waiting through long months and days

To love, to remember, for one who waits forever

Mountains and rivers separate us in two

Making friends' cheeks stained with tears

Feelings clear and bright like a lamp

Hoping heaven sees clearly the lotus scent of the lake

Loving one another, remember the ancestors

Loving one another, recall our Trịnh clan

Trịnh, Phùng, Trần, Nguyễn — four houses

Together building a strong, prosperous nation

Children and grandchildren of one skin, one love

Follow moral example, placing ethics above all

A person who takes virtue as foundation

Distant heaven still perceives, blessing luck for generations

Looking up, there is no one left

Looking sideways, a few relatives scattered

Soon they too will leave the mortal world

Going to paradise, relatives also depart

Wanting it peaceful, everyone

Compassion, joy, letting go — that is a cultivated life

Clear heart, clear mind, not blind

Dying leaves a name, not dim, not blurred

A few words parting hair fine and coarse

A few words of advice, don't worry, let go

Namo, bow to Buddha, compassionate

I here have done nothing of evil intent

Since long ago, I have quietly

Raised children carefully, though in poverty

Only hoping to pass through hard moments

End the endurance, end the suffering, cross the pass to the river

Day and night, longing for rosy light

Why does the rosy light not come, all waiting exhausted

Year of the Goat, a year of dreams

The youngest son, foolish, harming his father

Father and mother already old

Good intentions yet turned into utter suffering

Is this the shared fate

I here must pay, at the dead end, accept it

Looking at beautiful photos of loved ones

The words in the poem, gradually clear

Remembering four generations at the gathering

Now clearly seeing the "beloved fruit, Nhân"

Plus 9 discs, general Lê sent

Three Kingdoms, Journey to the West, truly needed

Grey hair, aged skin, never tired of watching

Healthy and joyful, no more worry

Sincerely I speak so you may know

Character like his, more than complete

Cannot find anywhere better

Pure love, faithful, before and now

But fate is decided by heaven

You want, he agrees, still must be

Separated far apart, tens of thousands of miles

He here is ninety, still ever devoted

One who leaves leaves behind a shadow, a slender form

One who leaves ends the dream of longing

Sad scene, with whom to share

The sorrowful see only long, darkened days

When will one meet the lamplight again

Lighting the way, to inch toward the shore

Where have gone the Moon Lady and the old Matchmaker

Who would not dance, do not lose and leave each other

The one who left, thought to have left for good

But still burdened with debt, cannot slip away

The shore of illusion, still separated by a bridge

Have not eaten the porridge of oblivion, long before returning

Husband and wife bound by marital love

Wherever we go, we still return to each other

My wife does not care for wealth

Only loves children and grandchildren, filling the house

The one who left, thought would not return

Missing her husband, she came back to live together

So many people sent telegrams

Hoping the husband recovers, living together in one house

Sons and daughters, in-laws living far

Telegrams pouring in, glad the heart is at ease

Family, many grandchildren, a brood of children

Morning and evening, asking after and congratulating

Autumn fading, the season turns to winter

Youth is gone, rosy life faded

Wrinkled skin, grey hair, looking old

What to repay father and mother now

That wine, sipped too much becomes drunkenness

Drunk, forgetting filial duty, wine now harms us

When can one quit the tippling

Mother happy, wife content, then we are fulfilled

Wife is sick, at the hospital, must lie down

Nurses, three of them, tend and care

The first, inserting the needle, draws blood

The second, seeing this, comes to check

Sticks the needle elsewhere, not the right spot

Seeing that, the third blushes with frustration

Let it be for me, let me try a bit

All three hit the vein, without a single miss

Though going to the hospital, whom to care for

Wife lies moaning, weeping for someone endlessly

A few nurses, still young and single

Glancing eyes signaling, wanting one or two

Wife there, nurse here, heart pounding aflame

Red lips rosy cheeks, a long tale

Why not ask about young Tôn Thất

Yet keep serving fully, wanting to lean shoulder

White hair, head bald, strongly spraying

Only week 7 came, still curving

Competing, may I ask, who fell behind, kept up

Rolling streams, rowing passes, still shining

Say weak, where is it, hardly so

Asking around, committing matters, clear as pond

Silent and quiet, breathing out fire

Don't think to belittle, dare to challenge

Let others sell titles and buy fame

Let others use words for high positions

There is a Tôn Thất, poem-composing

Keeping the same attitude, wishing to help the trade

Even if one must translate/shift

Vietnam, America, coming and going together

Buddha-heart, always kept in mind

Sincere heart chanting sutra, unchanging front to back

Friends everywhere

All love and cherish, for words of faithfulness

Not boasting, plenty of hero's mind

Doing nothing grand, still holding the gentle

Living like that is being an immortal

Friends apart, every region longing

Truly great shade of pine root

Helping people, living in one house

Now Tôn Thẩm is far from us

Retired, evacuated, so much left behind

Wishing happiness and good fortune

Praying Buddha protects, Buddha embraces the gentle

Forgive those with wicked hearts

Pardon the enemies already lying dead

Those who are arrogant masters

Still creating injustice, still creating hatred

Then we find ways to eliminate

Then we arrest, imprison, only then stop

Even scattered forever

Then ashamed of face, ashamed to speak of love

Reaching the sky was thought to be tall

Cement and steel, any wall can change

Jet planes, full of fuel

Crashing in, shattering, from now the grandeur lost

Homes tilted in disorder

Bodies lie scattered, all over the tall district

Transportation coming and going

All blocked, anxious and bustling

Young and old, big and small, terrified

Living in terror, can anyone laugh

Set a ladder up to ask Miss Hằng

How to do things, changing the world around

Think it over, again and again, oh dear

Anything in excess will easily fall apart

Virtue's reach, truly hard to measure

Virtue lives forever, the nation benefits

Brendon, birthday today

Wishing quick growth, day and night healthy and happy

Mother and father share the sweet and bitter

Grandparents care, coming and going constantly

Uncles aunts day and night

Cherishing, doting, through long days and months

Praying while standing, while lying

While playing, while sleeping, growing over the months and years

Looking at the child, remembering mother and father

Holding the child, remembering grandparents on both sides

Hoping the child is healthy in body, steady in mind

Well-mannered, knowing above and below, harmonious

My child is beautiful like a flower

Fragrant flower, precious flower, the whole family loves

Later knowing the way, knowing the path

Knowing to love mankind, knowing to love family

Nails are my trade

Though it earns money, standing and sitting not yet at ease

Mother and father of old still lived kindly

Yet my fate keeps falling short of others

When will fortune meet freshness

When will I meet the one I like

I am not crazy or deceitful

Hoping heaven aids, if not at noon then evening

On the cloud, looking down at the world

Pitying someone's life of poverty

Ignorance brings suffering all day long

Anger and delusion, wrongly against heaven's will

Don't make the ego too big, oh dear

Why not let go, so life may be at peace

Compassion, help the poor

Rich in heart, rich in feeling, overflowing with rich love

My birthday just passed

How did friends remember, remembered and gave gifts

Living on, remembering the ferry

Eating cake, remembering the kind-hearted giver

What do I know, to repay the debt fully

Now I only know to sincerely give thanks

In the air a faint sound of music

A solo ringing out, steadfast human affection

Today received a greeting card

From the rightful representative of Sơn province

Celebrating my birthday

Eighty years of age, spotted skin, still youthful

Successful and fulfilled, united

Helping family, helping friends, and the people of this province

Therefore, specially today

Congratulating me with two words, today truly joyful

Let others buy titles and fame

Let others have high-rises, greenery in pots

Migrated and arrived in this land

What more to wish, building golden dreams

Living abroad, one must wander

Keeping in mind, both sides, two rows of tears fall

Old age numbs life

A bit of friendship eases the sorrow

Why does the mind's source stir

The eight winds, those winds in the mind are the cause

Gain and slander, two leading winds

Praise and blame, harming great or small, mind it

Fame and ridicule, contradiction and separation

And two, joy and suffering, also stir the mind

Remember please, do not mistake

That is the Eight Winds, keep in mind always

Today the sky shakes, the earth quakes

Roof flung, stones fall, dragging clouds swirling

Suddenly a storm and torrential rain

Suddenly a tempest, water pouring flooding the house

Lying at home thinking all is fine

Inside the house, feels like a wasteland

Pearl tears drop wetting two rows

Heart and mind torn, who will share the sorrow

As if soul and spirit were seized

Has the shore of delusion come as prayed?

Deep night, calling for help from Miss Hằng

Hằng laughs and says, a trivial farce

Because of it, the world only mocks

Cover up all matters, everything joyful again

Oh garden, do you love me

Green garden, lovely garden, that is a loving garden

My life has reached the end of the road

Looking back and forth, the flavor is gone

With a garden there's rhythm, there's a pair

No garden, no work, sitting waiting, seeking spirit

I am not afraid of loneliness

This garden as a friend will share the time

Seventy-three, the lady is not yet old

Glad she's still healthy, complexion rosy

Many whom heaven hasn't raised high

Looking gaunt, how to compare with her

Hoping the lady in this visit

Meets dear relatives, east and west awaiting

Thus the dream is achieved

Like a boat meeting wind, reaching the shore of success

From ten thousand miles away coming here

Visiting dear relatives, so long awaited

Seeing each other, cool in heart, content

Wishing each other health, in this life

Then we'll recount, we'll tell

Hoping for comfort, then peace

Cultivate virtue, accumulate merit, live kindly

Pray heaven protects, Buddha and immortals bless

Morning star standing forever waiting for whom?

The sun has sunk, long night frozen with dew

Dawn hopes for a bit of loving light

Blue swallow, red swallow, love awaits

Please don't turn away and ignore

Evening star delayed, morning dim, drifting off

Youth, at the prime of spring

Love and romance first, do not take lightly!

Wishing you free of illness and pain

Wishing you good fortune, wealthier than before

Peace, health, prosperity, blessings in abundance

Year-round weather, sun and rain harmonious

Grandchildren beautiful like flowers

Good work and livelihood, the whole family at peace

Virtue nurtured, good fate fragrant

Plant trees, eat fruit, happy heart heaven rewards

Got news you're about to return home

Wishing you happy and well on the way home

Old age, the main matter, remains the issue

Keeping strong, nothing to complain about

Advance as the country entices spending

Children and grandchildren, weddings ease worry

Praying you meet favorable waters for the ferry

The ferry reaches shore, no worry but joy

Not going, one doesn't know America

Having gone, doesn't know what to do here

Looking up, only sees clouds

Looking sideways, only sees trees and houses

This place is not our homeland

So just stay, call it temporary shelter

Returning home, packing up to set off

Half loving the country, half loving family

Having just toured America

Heard with ears, seen with eyes, truly precious

East west south north, this country

Having known clearly, the mind remembers forever

Back home, telling stories on and on

Kindred souls stirring, a few keeping watch

Hoping birds nest on good soil

Hoping the evacuees have sweet rice and soup

Thanks to children near and far

Giving labor and means, truly precious

If not, how would I know this country

America prosperous, who can shake it

Coming and going, the heart still stirs

Civilization at its peak, going to the moon

Governing people, governing nation, fairly

Freedom of press, growing prosperous each day

Traveling, remembering relatives

Sons and daughters keep urging, so it lingers

The child says: "Days are wide, months are long

Stay a few more days, what for tomorrow

As for money, I can pay

Adding once more, hard to do next time!

Wishing all wishes fulfilled

Wishing health, long life, prosperity

Mother, I have awakened

Determined to quit drinking, determined to stop dawdling

From now on in coming and going

Day and night visiting my old mother

In the past, I deserved a beating

I hope you forgive me, so I may rely on you

Now I dare not be indifferent

Wholeheartedly helping mother, mother relies on me

Thanks to Heaven, thanks to the blessings of Ancestors

Grant us health, and enough money to spend

Though grandchildren and children are not many

But they all show love and cherish them

Old age, though the back is bent

Glad anyone helps without stopping a moment

Family united and joyful

That is what we enjoy, dreaming of building a golden dream

Remember those who gave birth and raised us

Remember those who support, luck is when we meet good fortune

Great gratitude, forever remember this merit

Small gratitude also from the hands of the family

The merit is vast as the wide sea

Engraved in heart and mind, unforgotten till old age

Only hoping to repay the kindness

A bright future, all above and below benefit

The Buddha's path has always been tolerant

Sheltering the people, giving warmth to hearts

Even if one must go anywhere else

Still at peace, dwelling truly within

Amitabha Buddha, the one who has eyes

Hoping to guide straight forward, not to detour

The path of liberation is the best

Buddha delivers the people, fulfilling their wishes

Just thought we'd be happy, staying here forever

Who knew we'd move again, to the West

So attached to friends, all missing each other

What to say now, to express and confide

Loving and worrying for safety, praying Buddha to help

Arriving safely, meeting all good fortune

Then all clear, hoping for news back

So all stays smooth, from here on

Hospital, love monkeys, dried toad (nonsense)

Foot hurts yet they treat something else, how absurd

The nurses are full of words

The doctors sit around dawdling

The advice is to be forgiving

Such love as this, better not to love

Looking at the nurse and feeling love

Give us the like, that is just the way it is

The world's talk: the foolish child, the mother bears blame

When a child goes bad, relatives mock and blame

Bowing the head, hiding the face, humiliated

Why has it come to husband and wife feeling shame

Beloved ones, hearing the bad news

Family and friends, all share in the sorrow

The heart in turmoil, emptying and filling

A few words of sharing, from here understood together

After all it is already written

Let the duckweed float, drift, to the very end

That Heaven has shown no mercy

Then give up, accept it, struggling is futile

Bird falling, fish diving, caged bird

It is fate's destiny, no more hope no more waiting

A human life is exactly one dream

Since it's a dream, it's illusion, don't take it as real

Three hundred fifty-seven Bạch Mai

There is Miss Hương Nguyễn, fortunate on her birthday

Choosing a husband, found a beloved

Chí Ninh, a master's graduate, gentle and honored, illustrious

Both bearing the Nguyễn surname, worthy fame

Both working at one company, joyful today

February, the 16th, remember the day

A wedding feast held, good news truly joyful

Hearing the news, a blow struck sideways to the ear

Well, just accept it, the cards have been dealt

Parting, then suffering separation

Who caused this rashness, leaving gossip in the world

Wife and children will be left in tatters

Parents lament, speaking softly of what shouldn't be

Resigned, enduring, compensating

From now the household register erases the name Thịnh

Now the matter is done

Truly forget it, let the heart be at ease

At ease, to rest for life

Thịnh's wife and children have someone to rely on

Though times, though circumstances, though chances

Pressed as it may be, but can worry solve it

Put your heart to it, build a bridge

So the wretched, amid life's upheavals, can rely on it

Looking in the mirror, combing hair, gazing at the image

Because of whom am I this pretty

The Matchmaker gods today

Tie the marriage bond, today the wedding

Bowing to father, bowing to mother, I kneel

Father's kindness, mother's love, I go to marry

From now the goods gone, the house empty

When can I send a rose to give father

When can I visit my old mother again

For now, wishing the whole family strength

Announce to the children the good news

Mother and children agreed, decided not to return

Now fully awake from delusion

Determined to stay, whoever returns, so be it

Wishing for a longer life

Dwelling in Seattle, one day exercising

Exercising for more health, no more pallor

For strong sinews, for healing the old illness

Knowing that eating is more than enough

Even if needing to scrimp, there is haggling

Sons and daughters have promised one or two

Wholeheartedly helping, worthy of repaying kindness

Hardship, resolve unshaken

The family's blessing has come, grateful to heaven and earth

Giving thanks to all, oh everyone

Giving thanks forever, engraved for generations

This poem is sent to grandchild and child

Begging forgiveness, waiting wearily

The reason is not disagreement

But because of illness, both grandfather and grandmother

Must let the doctors investigate

Then treatment, luckily it eases the pain

After treatment, grandfather quarrels less

If the illness lessens, grandmother's trouble soon ends

Keep good health first

Travel is secondary, if there's money then go

Understand, don't say it's strange

Be joyful and trust, whatever matters will succeed

People take photos in pairs

But why does the grandchild stand and sit alone

When will there be one singing, one playing

Then the heart trembles, transforms

Wishing the grandchild forever, forever pretty

Praying the grandchild soon has a paired love

Then when standing, when sitting

Have someone to confide in, satisfying the heart

Hearing the news that the man died by the roadside

The big clean road, love lacking people

Wife and children absent, lacking cheer

Parents also absent, absent over ten years

Passersby cannot hold back tears

Hoping the man is at peace, with the bodhi mind

When the man reaches the shore of delusion

He forgets, forgets all, the edge of suffering

Let anyone heap suffering upon

Making people flee, upheavals forever

Making people die in the open sea

Making people abandon all, forced to leave homeland

Making people sleep in markets, on streets

Making people die on the banks, down to the sidewalk

Making people lack a roof for shelter

Making people morning and night, suffering on their backs

Enough, enough, the man just rejoices

Hammer and sickle from it, gone dead now

Hammer and sickle, ungrateful as lime

When it goes, descendants can sit in peace

In the past the man still lived kindly

His descendants enjoy, a peaceful family home

To be born as a human being

Better than many lives, must be cheerful and proud

So one must think about how

Cultivate heart and mind, coming and going in joy

Always must advance in the right current

Always united, like glue

Good things we should follow

Greed and selfishness, complaining, cast away

Don't sow harsh and heavy words

Should be forgiving, compassionate, helping life

Bring love to everywhere

Live how to live, following the Buddha's counsel

If we live truly kindly

Eat well, sleep soundly, continuous happiness

Way of eating, way of living, throughout life

Be joyful and capable, when dead be at peace

Persistent, patient, and tolerant

Humble, all the more wise and brave

Bamboo straight-stemmed, not afraid to fall

One always steadfast, lasts long as a forest

Advising anyone to live, to truly live

Selfishness, greed, bad and good together

The Buddha teaches impermanence, we know it well

Good heart, good conduct, enjoy shared joy

Hearing the child is ill, in the liver

Symptoms of risk, matters must be discussed

Doctors must examine, and must treat

How to treat to end it, to prevent spreading

In our family, before, no one had it

Surely it's because of someone, at some time

When there's illness, treat it quickly

Hoping the child recovers soon, in the perilous time

Love father, cherish mother, in the heart

When convenient, go visit, to discuss

If not convenient, no matter, phone to ask

The essence is true feeling, in the heart

Siblings delighted, enjoying joy together

In sorrowful times, share it

Parents at peace, while still alive

A smile without regret, till the end

Having held eighty autumns, lived enough now

This autumn comes again, must leave this place

Leaving, preparing, going back to the nest

Therefore, life is nearing

If the children love, prepare beforehand

The shroud, hat and staff, must go through life

Take me to the grave, then bury

Whether cremate or burn, is also fine

Two thousand and four, remember which year

Father and mother aged, easily collapse

The child has repaid the kindness, and repaid filial duty

So came back to welcome, to shelter

Two thousand and six, the sky is grey

Dreams shatter fast, water poured into a pond

Thinking of mother and father, heartbroken

Lying awake at night, lamenting to the high heavens!

Lord have mercy, my sins are too many!

Lacking in repaying filial duty, and love

Must help parents, when old and weak

But not yet fulfilled, the will of the virtuous

Lord forgive, the unfilial heart

I willingly pledge to keep the precept

Living in filial love, always remembering

Remember to carry it out, forever loving!

White hair, loose teeth, still not at peace

Places to eat and dwell, still changing regions

Due to heart, due to nature, or fate

Toil, drifting, the lot of destiny

Praying to Buddha, praying to Heaven, pity the poor

From now, in dwelling place, meet kindness

Wishing children together with grandchildren

Healthy and joyful, living in peace!

Help, then just abandon

Vietnam, likewise, also cast aside the common fate

Now they proclaim themselves heroes

Marching to Iraq to smash the dictatorship

Consider, is the reasoning right or wrong

Wielding power, wielding influence, wielding wealth, attack

Destroy the fields and property

Soldiers and workers all die, farmers long famished

Sparing no one at all

Even monks, also some criticize

Hoping heaven rescues the situation

Otherwise peace is lost

Make an effort to drive them out

When they are wiped out, then there will be peace

Washing cars to have money to spend

That is self-reliance, morning and evening knowing to work

Even though still of school age

The road ahead has direction, no hesitation

The future is bright, what more is needed

Hoping that one day, surely a good life

Reading this, love the diligent one

Be joyful, enjoy, don't be entangled in anything