Cecep Syamsul Hari
SAJAK SAMSON
Untuk lukisan Ahmad Fuad Osman
Selalu pada waktu subuh
Samson dan kawan-kawan
Menyalak sepanjang adzan
Mungkin mereka melihat para malaikat ke langit pulang
Mungkin mereka melihat setan-setan ramai keliaran
Mungkin mereka cuma membersihkan tenggorokan
Samson dan kawan-kawan pernah bertanya kepadaku
Apakah aku kenal kakek mereka
Konon ia anjing para penghuni gua
Yang diizinkan Tuhan masuk sorga
Rimbun Dahan, Selangor, 2008
SAMSON’S POEM
For the painting of Ahmad Fuad Osman
Always in the dawn
Samson and his friends
Barking as long as the call to prayer
May be they saw the angels back to heavens
May be they saw the demons lively wander about
May be they just cleaning their throats
Samson and his friends ever asked me
Whether I know their forefather
They said he was a dog of the cave dwellers
That permitted by God entering the heaven
Rimbun Dahan, Selangor, 2008
Translated by Catherine Natalia