#667 On Little Minds

She frowned, then eyes a-widened 
And whispered loudly this:
“I have to ask the husband, right?”
A child’s mind - ah, what bliss!

She begged with charm implicit
Implored with heart o’erwrought
“You’ll come today to visit, right?”
Her pleading came to naught.

#665 Tentang Pemberontakan Sang Pengemis

Patahkan saja tulang-tulang kami
Biar riuk biar berlekuk
Injak-injakkan tubuh lumat kami
Hingga jadi debu berhabuk

Ternyata semua ini tidak cukup
Buat tuan-tuan sekalian
Dan kami enggan mahu hidup
Kalau harus terus melutut berhingusan

Padamkan sengih jelingan sinis
Simpan saja cemeti bengis
Kami enggan terus mengemis.

#664 On Your People

Maya Angelou said:
Bring your people with you.

Think of the people who are no longer with you
The people who loved you
The people who supported you
The people who were kind to you
Carry the spirit of those people on your shoulders

And when you walk into that room
Know that the people you bring with you
Are your sword and your shield and your armour
Let the memory of their kindness and their love
Be the cooling shade amidst the scorching sun of blistering hostility
Be the warm companion amidst the withering spite of cruel indifference

Be they a throng or the several few
What counts the most is how they loved
The one and only You they knew.