Here, still, waiting for you!

Here, still, waiting for you!

(an English version of 'Anh Vẫn Chờ Em')

As you drown in an illusion of life

Keep floating and sinking in those dark and colored night

Here, at the edge of my life

I have watched time slip by

How many seasons have come and gone

In the full and wane of that golden moon

Here, I awaited, and still, I wait for you

I, too, tried to share those illusions of yours

for I longed, even for a half of your loving heart - be mine!

Here, I have waited for your returning footsteps!

How many seasons have come and passed?

How many times the autumn leaves shed

In the golden and stillness of the last sunlight

Here, I, still, await your footsteps!

In the deafening of the ice-wintry nights

Can’t you also hear in the wind that whispered?

Your name, my love, your name whom I called

How many times has the breeze of spring passed?

Your youth and mine, the greenest of life,

will it last?

Or only the darkness of my shadow that casts

its loneliness and sadness as time passes

Yet, as the rhythm of life sustains

My longing for you still remains

In each and every beat of an untainted heart

My love for you – not an illusion - will last!

Nhật Thụy Vi

May 2015

(thanks Anastasia W. for helping with editing)