Running Away From The Marauders Poem by Nguyen Dinh Chieu

The market dispersed as the western guns were heard.
A wrong move had caused the sudden loss of the strategic game!
Terrified, children broke out of the homes running,
And birds, their nests destroyed, flew aimlessly.
The wealth of Ben Nghe popped like foam bubbles,
And houses in Dong Nai went up in smoke.
Where were all the rebel-quenching heroes?
Why you let the poor citizens suffer this horrible ordeal?