Chairil Anwar

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Chairil Anwar AKU (poem) If my time has come I don't want anyone to beg Not even you I don't need that sniveling! I'm but a wild animal Exiled even from his own group Even if bullets pierce my skin I will still enrage and attack Wounds and poison I'll take running Running Until the pain leaves And I will care even less I want to live a thousand more years NO, WOMAN No, woman! What lives in me still easily evades your fevered and dark embrace, intent on finding the greenness of another sea, to be again on the ship where we first met, surrendering the rudder to the wind, our eyes fixed on waiting stars. Something flapping its wings, again conveys Tai Po and the secret of the Ambonese Sea. Such is woman! A single vague line is all I can write in my flight towards her enigmatic smile. A Fugitive I Enough! He can‟t Stand this fierce, yearning fight! He runs out, Slamming the door behind him. Silence (and the oneness of two hearts) Is suddenly smashed II From dusk to darkness The evening welcomes him, grinning. Another stone drops in the blackness. “What do you want? Tears, and then it‟s all over I‟m here! Just make up your mind! Do I have to get you to win me over? Or just leave you alone? Come on! Come on! Just do it!” But he can‟t -marooned, drifting Caught by the night "TRANSLATED by Burton Raffe WILLINGNESS If you like I'll take you back With all my heart. I'm still alone. I know you're not what you were, Like a flower pulled into parts. Don't crawl! Stare at me bravely. If you like I'll take you back For myself, but I won't share even with a mirror.

AKU (poem)

If my time has come
I don't want anyone to beg
Not even you
I don't need that sniveling!

I'm but a wild animal
Exiled even from his own group
Even if bullets pierce my skin
I will still enrage and attack

Wounds and poison I'll take running
Running

Until the pain leaves

And I will care even less
I want to live a thousand more years

NO, WOMAN

No, woman! What lives in me

still easily evades your fevered and dark embrace,

intent on finding the greenness of another sea,

to be again on the ship where we first met,

surrendering the rudder to the wind,

our eyes fixed on waiting stars.

Something flapping its wings, again conveys

Tai Po and the secret of the Ambonese Sea.

Such is woman! A single vague line

is all I can write

in my flight towards her enigmatic smile.

A Fugitive

I

Enough! He can‟t Stand

this fierce, yearning fight!

He runs out,

Slamming the door behind him.

Silence (and the oneness of two hearts)

Is suddenly smashed

II

From dusk to darkness

The evening welcomes him, grinning.

Another stone drops in the blackness.

“What do you want? Tears, and then it‟s all over

I‟m here!

Just make up your mind!

Do I have to get you to win me over?

Or just leave you alone?

Come on! Come on!

Just do it!”

But he can‟t -marooned, drifting

Caught by the night

"TRANSLATED by Burton Raffe

WILLINGNESS

If you like I'll take you back
With all my heart.

I'm still alone.

I know you're not what you were,

Like a flower pulled into parts.
Don't crawl! Stare at me bravely.

If you like I'll take you back

For myself, but
I won't share even with a mirror.