Poetry Corner

 

Enemy

 

 

 

It has no head, no eye, no mind;

It comes from my body--inside.

It has no leg, no hand, no arm;

It’s not cold; it’s not warm.

 

It has no house and no shelter;

It has nothing--brother or sister.

It has no relative and no family;

But I can feel and I can see.

 

It has no color and no race;

no identity and no birthplace.

Its body is a liquid form;

It’s harmful as a storm.

 

How often it happens to me?

It’s not my friend, but enemy.

 

(Germantown, March 3, 1998)

 

Vinh Liem

 

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