On Lies Now Known

Our lies, they would rather not 
Be seen by the prying eyes
These lies they burn red and hot
Yet hide in the night’s dark guise

They hide in the plots we make
They nest like the coiling snake
They fest in the illest will
They pounce with the venging thrill

Your lies I cannot abide
Now seen by all, wide and far
No more can they twist and hide
I know you for what you are.

On The Sin of Pride

I keep a watchful eye now
For age-old sin of Pride
(We hardly use that word now
That word - Sin! - we deride
It’s very nature, quaint now
Yet one more Truth denied
And Virtue, set aside now
Lo, Freedom’s deified!)

Yes, Pride is all around now
Its seeds spread far and wide
It grows in every heart now
It blooms, and needs not hide
Pride grows with zest and verve now
Mulched with our deadened eyes
Black mirrors in our hands now
Pride’s gardens multiplied

Alas, this is the way now
Our lives suffused with Pride
The original Sin now
Prized, what was once decried
One wonders for how long now
We’ll let desires decide
Will we break free of Pride now
Or endlessly abide?

Tentang Ketemuan

Siapa sangka dari sejuta
Insan yang ada di bumi
Kita harus ketemu jua
Dua jiwa, hati terpatri.

Dari awal engkau ragui
Apa erti hidup bersama
Syak wasangka kita lunturi
Yakin hati berjalin cinta

Apa maksud hidup berliku
Sunyi jiwa terpadam kini
Shair hidup memuji kamu
Redup hati damai abadi. 

On Language

Our Language is our fam’ly tree 
The ties that build affinity
With words traversing waves of thought
The gap between us fades to naught

Out of the kiln, the words that build
Tribes, cities, armies, courts and guilds
Cementing ties of human hearts
Foundation for the sciences, arts

Thus Language forms the grounding strong
For human life, its wax and throng
To depths of seas and heights of space
Its thrumming drives the human race

Alas its boon hides darker tones
For language also marks the zones
Between a commonwealth of us
Against the others we distrust

Without a common lingual sphere
Communities cannot cohere
From babel curse of estranged tongues
Flows mistrust and committed wrongs

So you may think ‘tis insensate
For nations to compel, dictate
One Language to unite them all
Must we be caged in one tongue's thrall?

Such is the fate of nations blessed
With populace diverse, now pressed
Into each other's common fate
Be it with joy or teeth agrate

This babel curse need not be rued
Variety is a gift imbued
Unto those nations such as ours
Rejoicing in our hundred flowers

A common language bridges, brings
The people all together, wings
Of peace take flight in concert when
Our hearts unite in common ken

And that one speech need not efface
The shared melange of varied race
That makes up nations on this earth
Where each one owns their human worth

So let us celebrate, rejoice
Humanity in one shared voice
With pride our anthem loudly sung
In warp and weft of one shared tongue.