Vietnam

Vietnam (Wislawa Syzmborska)

"Woman, what's your name?" "I don't know."
"How old are you? Where are you from?" "I don't know."
"Why did you dig that burrow?" "I don't know."
"How long have you been hiding?" "I don't know."
"Why did you bite my finger?" "I don't know."
"Don't you know that we won't hurt you?" "I don't know."
"Whose side are you on?" "I don't know."
"This is war, you've got to choose." "I don't know."
"Does your village still exist?" "I don't know."
"Are those your children?" "Yes."

*ဗီယက္နမ္ (ဗီဆြာဗာ ရွင္မ္ေဘာ္စကာ)*

“ေဟ့ ၊ ဟာမ ၊ မင္းနာမည္ဘာလဲ´´ “မသိဘူး´´

“မင္းအသက္ဘယ္ေလာက္ရွိျပီလဲ´´ “မသိဘူး´´

“ဘာျဖစ္လို႔ မင္းဒီေျမတြင္းကိုတူးတာလဲ´´“မသိဘူး´´

“မင္းဒီမွာ ပုန္းေအာင္းေနတာဘယ္ေလာက္ၾကာျပီလဲ´´ “မသိဘူး´´

“မင္းဘာေၾကာင့္ ငါ့ လက္ေခ်ာင္းကို ကိုက္တာလဲ´´ “မသိဘူး´´

“မင္းကို ငါတို႔ အႏၱရာယ္မျပဳဘူးဆိုတာ မင္းမသိဘူးလား´´ “မသိဘူး´´

“မင္းဘယ္သူ႔ဘက္ကလဲ´´ “မသိဘူး´´

“ဒါဟာ စစ္ပဲ ၊ မင္းဘက္လိုက္ရလိမ့္မယ္´´ “မသိဘူး´´

“မင္းရြာရွိေသးလား´´ “မသိဘူး´´

“ဒါမင္းရဲ႕ ကေလးေတြလား´´ “ဟုတ္တယ္´´။

 

(ဒီကဗ်ာကို ဆရာ ေဇယ်ာလင္း ဘာသာျပန္ပါတယ္။)