hoàng uyên ♡ | aspiring author & resident book bunny

✧˚₊· người mẹ vượt biên ·₊˚✧ is a piece dedicated for my mother. it translates roughly to something along the lines of “the mother who crossed the seas.” though to be quite frank, i do not think a translation could do justice for the depth of sacrifice behind the words “vượt biên.”

for my fellow literary analysis nerds, yes there was indeed a tribute to my mother’s journey, as a boat refugee from the vietnam war in the imagery. i hope you enjoy dissecting the poem as much as i enjoyed writing it. ₊˚⊹ ᰔ

—— from 𝙪𝙣𝙨𝙚𝙣𝙩 𝙡𝙚𝙩𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙨 𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙝 𝙣𝙤𝙬𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙚 𝙩𝙤 𝙜𝙤, a collection of letters that were never meant to be sent; to those who hurt us, those we grieve, those we love, and the versions of ourselves that we’re still learning to understand.
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𝘧𝘰𝘭𝘭𝘰𝘸 𝘢𝘭𝘰𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘴 𝘪 𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘯 𝘮𝘺 𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘵𝘭𝘦 𝘥𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘮𝘴 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘰 𝘢 𝘣𝘰𝘰𝘬 @𝘩𝘰𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘶𝘺𝘦𝘯𝘢𝘶𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘳 ♡