Borrowed Spring

 Author: Đặng Lệ Khánh

Translated by: Vuong Thanh

Nature’s Spring comes and goes in a circle.

My  Heart’s Spring is just one long weary road.

In Nature’s Spring, the young leaves budding up freshly green.

In my Spring: moments of sorrow and hair turning silver.

Following Natures’s Spring, sparkling Summer comes right after.

Following My Spring - just the frostiness of winter.

I want to borrow Nature’s Spring,

a little fragrance of flower and its rosy hue,

a little sunshine at dawn, 

and a little twilight,

to make my day cozy and bright. 

Want to borrow the wings of butterflies,

the song of love birds,

and just a little bit of the gentlest smile,

then My Spring will be a sweet delight.