TUYET 13-TUYET 19

Tuyet 19 is standing there.
6 years have passed.
I look at her confusedly:
where is Tuyet 13?
Her hands are reaching for the dream.
Her eyes are full of stars.
Her breast is full of vitality.
Her lips cherry flowers.
I just stand and stare at her
without a word.
If it was old days before,
I would come touch her cheeks and hold her shoulders.
6 years, oh, 6 years
are a magic wand to her:
it changed her from a child
to a stunning young lady.
But 6 years are just 6 years
of misery to me:
broke and disillusioned,
moonlight has got into my hair.

Hoang Hai Ho

PHOTO: Japanese model MEGUMI OISHI