Encrypting Your Name With Verse
Encrypting Your Name With Verse
By Phan Tan Hai
you can’t see your name between the lines
I put it on paper
words from days and months
that have almost vanished
and see again among the
secret words
your face is stealthily appearing
chilling my soul every night.
I put it into a poem
the footprints you left in the snow
from days so far away
with the cold wind shivering my ink lines.
shaking, I read
and see you walk
among words on paper.
I put it into words
the memories
from days so far away
and hearing amid the fading strands of smoke
your sorrowful voices
how did we lose each other so clumsily
you will notice
the fragrance hidden in my words
the fragrance from heaven
that you once
brought into my life
in a day of snowfall
the day we leaned on each other
to help pass every step
and many times we slid and fell
along the icy sidewalks
where your laughs fell onto
and then soared back to the sky
transforming into snowflakes
and since then on
cooling my days and months
you will someday read
and see beneath the poetic lines
that I write down tonight
and will notice among the clauses
so many words without rhymes
those are my remaining days in life
those are days and nights
being tilted and encrypted with your name
once upon a time
at that place
you stepped into my soul
and then left
leaving a maze of paths.
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