Eternity






Thiên Thu

Sao thiên thu không là thiên thu
Nên những người yêu là những ngôi mồ
Tôi đứng một mình trong nghĩa địa
Và chắc không đành quên khổ đau
Nguyễn Tất Nhiên

Eternity
(Extracted)

Why eternity isn't eternity?
So all my lovers turned in their graves.
I stand alone in the cemetery
And I do not want to forget my griefs.
Translated by Lê Tài
L'éternité

L'éternité
ne fût jamais perdue.
Ce qui nous a manqué
Fût plutôt de savoir
La traduire en journées,
En ciel, en paysages,
En paroles pour d'autres,
En gestes vérifiables.
Mais la garder pour nous
n'était pas difficile
Et les moments étaient présents
Où nous paraissait clair
Que nous étions l'éternité.

Eugène Guillevic




Eternity

Eternity
never was lost.
What we did not know
was how to translated it into days,
Skies, landscapes,
into words for others
authentic gestures.
But holding on to it for ourselves
that was not difficult
And there were moments
when it seemed clear to us
We ourselves were eternity.

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