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Lễ rửa tội ở sông Jordan (Nguyễn Quang Thiều)
Đăng bởi Vũ Phong Lĩnh 武風嶺 vào 25/10/2025 17:38
Baptism on Jordan River
1. I splash water from Jordan River For my own baptism When I step up from the river bank I see the road in front of me The sins’ shadow standing in line to the horizon Calling me, mesmerizing me And threatening
2. Someone told me “The water is dirty, why would you wash with it?”
No water can wash off the sins It has to be tears If tears cannot wash them We have to wash with our own blood
3. Many have come Politicians, intellectuals Poets, the disables And murderers Submerge in the stream Then have the illusion That their sins were washed clean
4. Then there are many Came to this river To get baptized Then come back To commit sins on another river.
By the Bank of Jordan, June 4th 2023
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