One Needs A Sound Of Bell…

by Tran Nhuan Minh

The perfidious eye glares
Words and their meanings are deceitful
The attractiveness of sins
Inebriated people like alcohol ferment…

One needs a sound of bell
Stricken at midnight!

The tree trunks with roots grown upside down turning into a forest
Fragrant ripe yellow fruits that are full of poison
To what an extent the way snakes crawled
in their holes was unfathomable…

One needs a sound of bell
Stricken at midnight!

When going away one has stumbled
When going back one goes astray
And being too proud means
one is committing suicide…

One needs a sound of bell
Stricken at midnight