Love follows the wind as clouds drift,

Melancholy thoughts rain down on life,

Tears fall, covering the years, 

The years I’ve been away from you.

On the day of enchanting bliss, you ascended the throne,

but had felt the golden fabric of love tattering.

Immersed myself in the burning incense and evaporating fragrance, 

Hoping to find a moment of reunion bliss.

Didn't know that joy already lay within the storm.

Lonely bats wander in the long night.

Which words have you not spoken, oh my love?

Which love does not have deceits. 

Let's love each other like the times we were madly in love. 

Leaves whisper the words of the trees,

The wind gently guides the path of the clouds.

If we love each other, let it be in those innocent days,

When the eyes are still bright,

When the hair not yet gray, 

When the lips haven't yet learned to lie.

Joyful love in a fleeting moment,

Melancholy thoughts nurtured a lifetime.

So please hold on to hope, even if dreams are never fulfilled,

Even if Heaven adds bitterness,

Still, await the calm after the storm. 

For here remains my declaration of love for you.

Silently shining light on the path to happiness.

The fairies broke their wings in the spring night,

And with wandering steps fall to the earth,

To become human lovers standing under the vast sky,

Crying for the dream of Heaven.

The day of returning to the fairyland so far away.

Yet succumbing to the enchanting words. 

Turning love into wings to fly away,

But there are still a few minutes of transient joy in this human world. 

by Nguyễn Đình Toàn

English translation by Vuong Thanh, 12.2023