Longings in my heart … longings for one faraway

Like a river with layers and layers of long rain

Will your eyes, my love, be misty with lonely sorrow

When autumn, one early morning, arrives?

It’s going to be chilly very soon

At the capital, do you miss the place we use to be together?

Light, dusty rain falling on the defense border

The river, in the evening, looks so gloomily cold on this side. 

Vapors of cigarette smoke stir long ago memories

Night by night, the Đáy river’s so cold against the two shores

A vision of you appears for a brief instant in the wine cup

Talking and smiling like in a night  dream

So far away now, my love, each on separate road of Life.

On the two divided homeland’s shores, we still love each other

Upon leaving, your thin dress swayed in the wind with loneliness

Are your innocent tears of sorrow still overflowing?