Selamat Tidur Gus Dur

Mungkin engkau terlalu lelah menanti secercah cahaya

di negeri yang senang berpesta malam gulita.

Soneta Ada yang Lebih Tanya

Soneta Ada yang Lebih Tanya

Akhirnya kita bertemu di Hyderabad

setelah perjalanan yang mungkin berabad

sejak langkah-langkah mungil leluhur

menyematkan kita di sebuah debar luhur

Kita bertemu di jantung menara Charminar

tanpa hujan yang kerap diramal penyair

di atas Hussain Sagar rembulan menuang senyum

tapi di dadaku ada yang kian deras berdentum

Lalu kita telusuri lekuk-tubuh benteng Golkonda

di puncaknya kita lepas pandang dan coba mengerti

deru angin dan taring jurang merangkai tanda-tanda

kelak jadi cerita sunyi di layar emas kota film Ramoji

Masih perlukah kita bertanya tentang makna luka

sementara ada yang lebih tanya di mata kaki kita?

Hyderabad, 2009.

Sumpah Sampah

Kami yang dikutuk sampah
sesekali boleh bersumpah
demi mulia nama lembah
air mata-Mu harus tumpah.

Bangalore, 2009

Smile, Pakistan!

Bruised body, is it you, o, Pakistan? Locking yourself and having your own fun in a room. What do you pour to defend against the blackening blue? Every time it’s heard you scream or maybe it was just a laugh that was disguised?

Then why the sky was shaking at the end of the eyes? Silent tears or choked laughters pound on the top of television. Don’t you feel, o, Pakistan, your agile body is our body, your sick body is our body. Why do you save your own grief, why did you bear fly groves? Partying in their own foul wounds.

Rise up body, soul rise! Arise, o, a strong Pakistan. Open slightly the window pale lips, let the wind crawls away to share the cries to our bodies.

Make sure, o, Pakistan! Swift tears - or laughter? - today, filled up our prayers. Growing the morning buds on the lips of children of the night. Make sure, o, Pakistan, the night the storm would pass. The children return to school and the parents cheerfully corn. Inviting the caressing rain. Rainbow perched on a branch beside the house.

Smile, Pakistan!

Bangalore, 2009

Kamirindupusing!

Kamirindupusing!

Kauterangkami

silaukaugelap

kamirancukau

remangkamiragu

kauadakami

kelahikautiada

kamirindupusing!

Bangalore, 2009