Is it better to speak or to die?

A poem written in English, after the words of a boy in Northern Italy.

24 July 2022New Taipei, Taiwan1 min read0 viewsPoetry

Is it better to speak or to die?
Those are the words from the guy in Northern Italy
He wrote it with the pain and emptiness
In the summer night.

Everytime I think about those words
I become him in my own world
With the same pain and emptiness
Is it better to speak or to die?

I wonder how long the life will last?
When the nostalgia is full of my mind
When everything that couldn't forget
When the heart doesn't tell lie.

How are you in Germany?
The family, the daughter and the wife
I decided not to speak
Dying forever in your eyes.

Phong, 24 July 2022
First published in Vietnamese on Phong is writing. Original English text.

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