GOOD EVENING JAKARTA

By Mu`az Rasyied

Good evening Jakarta … ..
I’m still here
And I still write
poems for mother earth

Good evening Jakarta … ..
so delicious and lelapnya
citizen’s asleep
While our brothers
in Aceh, Maluku, Sulawesi, Kalimantan
and in all corners of this land
still groaning because not eating
Our brethren in refugee camps
and in other places

They lament:
“Their house is in ruins,
Their mother’s father who died,
their brothers who went off somewhere,
husband and wife and their children are loved,
missing and dead,
Why we are just the small became smaller?

Good evening Jakarta … ..
so beautiful charm tonight
decorated by hundreds of skyscraper buildings
and millions of lights that adorn the night-your night

While the situation is getting worse
in each area covered in blood
due to the hands that touch them anathema

Good evening Jakarta … ..
Should the blood continues to flow like water?
Because that makes the stirring up of demons
our brothers … ..

They do not want this to happen …
kill each other,
mutual scorn,
each fuel,
throwing,
killing each other …. !

They have been slandered,
instigated,
pitted-sheep!
by people who do not want to see
peace of ourselves as the small

Good evening Jakarta … ..
please listen and move!
The people that we still believe
to hear our compassion
in this country

Good evening Jakarta … ..
night the morning crawl
and citizen here
sleep together hayalannya
Good evening Jakarta … ..
I still write poems-
for the motherland … ..
And especially to our brothers
are still moaning … ..

South-Jak Friday 28 April 2000