Are you well these days, aunt?

I hope you still keep fresh rosy cheeks

Morning and evening, hearing you talk and laugh

With children, with grandchildren, truly so much

Sisters of the same flesh in general

Do you visit and reunite joyfully?

If sons and daughters meet with problems

Hard troubles, hard to solve, making the heart ache?

I hope you dwell truly within

So that Heaven and Buddha wholeheartedly bless you

Blessings and fortune are always there

Helping both you and Danh to be fully content!

to send to the couple Chánh Quang Đức and Chồn An Liên

Our karmic bond is only here

Suddenly, men and women, joyfully gathered by clan

The men bear the Chánh name, weary hearts

The women are truly of the branch, clear indeed

Male friend: "Quảng Đức chánh" sitting

"An-Liên chồn" wife, standing and sitting in quiet practice

As for me, remember having an umbrella

Trúc Lâm Minh chánh, helping cultivate the body

Dharma name is "Chánh Tuệ-Minh"

Wife: "Chồn phở Phước" truly so glorious

We now become at ease

Friend nearly sixty, I of a hundred years

Luckily the bond is favorable and deep

Meeting at the meditation hall, years of quiet Zen

Practicing Zen, liberation, becoming immortal

Hoping that later on, we meet endlessly

Meeting, let go of sorrow

Praying that together we get long days of contentment

Eat well, sleep well, my child!

Morning and evening, cheerful, listen to mother

Your father is so busy

But father always cherishes you so much!

Here is mother cradling and cherishing

Seeing you so lovely, mother rejoices, my child!

You just opened your eyes to greet the world

Having father and mother eagerly welcoming

Grandparents on both sides yearned

Also present coming and going to look at you

Hoping you grow up quickly

After learning to roll over, crawling about

Then over the months mother worries

Clothes and socks, the little one runs to play

Playing in clean places is the advice

Avoid hot water places, avoid blazing fire

Turning five, turning seven right on

Going to school, to brighten up

Help father, help mother, help husband

Help with money, with silver, help the family clan

Marrying a Chinese husband, facing far away

Who knew, life and death, still keeping heart

So always keep the warm bond

Morning and evening, hardship, still fearing nothing

Seeing father wanting anything

Immediately taking care, father rejoices

Mother, too many problems

Sometimes relatives, sometimes belly aches always

Cough medicine, drink enough, no mistake

Toilet, changing diapers, long tasks never forgotten

Filial, loyal, gratitude, repaid

Bát-Tràng, serving the clan, the name Sơn remembered for life!

Old now, taking singing as joy

Good words, fine meaning, mellow voice ringing out

Neighbors, friends, relatives

Perk up their ears, listen all, resonating in the person

Eighty-four yet still smiling brightly

Going and coming, not lazy sitting idle

Sing on, sing more, high and low

Making the atmosphere always warm

Sometimes joyful, sometimes sorrowful

Whoever listens must value the talent of the voice

Singing brings joy to the home

Joy to father, joy to mother, the whole family joyful together!

Parting then meeting again

Or forever no more chance to see

If the bond is still rosy

Then we'll meet again, so fear nothing

If the debt no longer remains

Then surely, that cuts off life

Whoever is old, surely will ascend

Whoever is younger, stays alive

This land, how many mountains, how many hills

Some lie down, some still stand here

Finally when one has enjoyed fully

Find a cool place, Trúc Tây to rest and lie!

When lying in hospice, thought it was death

Fate still lucky, still warm at heart

Hospice let me return, but told to return

Daily still coming, still waiting hopefully

Giving more sleep-beds for a calm mind

Health, this room now sees escape from the cycle

Hospice demands the bed and takes it back

Right away the old bed is set up and done!

Look at the ant, the bee

The chicken, the fish, the birds and beasts learn well

Each one lives in flocks

Telling one another to work, eagerly finding food

Once full, still seeking more

Saving for times of wind and rain

Ant-hearted, unity more than enough

Eagerly working, morning noon and evening

You should learn the common love

Love, work, cleverness, so precious

Add also the ant's patience now

Add unity, enduring bitterness together

Not complaining, not lamenting in general

So the result, they all have plenty to eat

You progress ever more

Do not waste but strive to keep in heart

Keep the mind calm, the heart calm

Then all cherish you, surely your heart is glad

That bird seeks its nest and flies back

This fish is likewise, does not disdain its own

The ant though truly small, is very keen

Never forgetting the place where it was truly born

A human, having learned the work

Even more needs to know clearly the birthplace, which place

Knowing, must think what to do

To the debt of nurturing, the merit of others

So that people are happy and cheerful

So that they reveal and laugh joyfully

Money and fame are also the issue

Must worry, must think, shift for survival

Somehow before the young scene

Father's love, mother's virtue, wanting more is good!

So much effort, hardship day and night

Helping the child grow up, teaching without stint

Mother and father dwell within

You should think, wholeheartedly repay the kindness