The Rotating Earth

by Tran Dang Khoa

Translated by Ngo Binh Anh Khoa

It is nothing new
When the Earth unknowingly rotates
When the heat departs, the cold arrives
Sorrows and joys will quickly fade away…

What will come will come
What shall pass shall pass
There’s no need to fight
We’ll still become…old at last

Life is like a grain of dust
The desired peace never comes
If even the world is tilted,
What then can endure?…

Perform one good deed
While we can still share with each other now
Who knows what tomorrow will be like
When the mortal world unknowingly rotates…

2012