Happy New Year! Tet! Tet! Tet!
Food, wine, and beer. Let’s celebrate!
Vietcong and Allied at the Cease Fire;
Wonderful fireworks in the blue sky.
Fireworks, drink, and sing until midnight;
Don’t sleep. Await. Peace. Why fight?
Grenades, TNT, B-40’s… had been found;
Machine guns placed somewhere in town.
Fire! Fire! Fire! Vietcong! Vietcong! Vietcong;
Death. Wounded. Ruined. Destroyed. Strong
Deadly rockets and bombs visited suddenly;
No ambulance. Darkness. High casualties.
Sorrow. Sadness. Widowed. Bad news.
Tet Offensive was a killing field!
VĨNH LIÊM
