In the following excerpt Kieu will finally stop
lamenting. She is still stuck in the brothel but now a new guy enters the
picture. His name is Ky Tam, or Thuc Ky depending on how you want to read it.
He is a patron of the brothel and is immediately smitten with her. Their love
affair escalates quickly and neither one of them realizes just how serious the ramifications of it will turn out to be.
This is only part one, so stay tuned.
All of a sudden a fellow,
Bright-faced, came inside.
His name: Ky Tam. His style refined.
A native of Wuxi,
His voyage was thousands of li.
With his father he sought
To open a fine trading spot.
Kieu’s tender voice struck him,
Her beauty tore him, limb from limb.
Drawn by the scent of rose,
Sweet perfume, beckoned him close.
What charm! What a kind grace!
Smitten he was, now face-to-face.
He felt a loss for words,
A peach blossom hanging by cords,
She was a contradiction,
A Spring day with sun, rain, wind; a fiction.
The moon and a flower
Melt in each other’s power.
How can a man resist
On a Spring night such as this?
One ever-lasting string
Binds the two like queen and king.
A young peach, an old plum,
Their affection grew as it’d come,
Night time fun, moonlit trysts,
Became a sunlit kiss, that none could dismiss.
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