Still Awake In Many Autumn Nights


through many long nights i've burnt all my dreams
in poetry, on music, and from wild singing voice
you're as thousand nautical miles afar, eyes still with sorrowful tears
our past of passion, lips upon lips ... in fading tearful streams
broken sun like promises scattering in autumn storms
twilight came, i still count my footsteps in somnambulistic sleep
my sweet darling, i love you like the long mountains being awake
sunlight already faded but ask not fade the love
our music dropped already shattered upon cold dews for some time

uncertain life like wavy foams falling apart
glistening love upon floating days and months
your rain blurry falls with lonely winds
my darling, why were your smiles still far away ?
or you being with me still see withered leaves upon the lips
burying our dreams in snowflakes of life
you're biting-cold in my perilous soul

oh, why was i still awake through many autumn nights ?
isolated sky and hair turning gray
in your melancholic smiles, you still reflect yourself in pain
possibly tomorrow i die, will you still shed tears for me ?
will your lips be sad in rainy evenings ?
possibly tomorrow the twilight falls its solitude shadow
i'll still love you and love you forever, darling ...

Truong Dinh