The Stupid Soul

Jiwa- jiwa yang Bebal

Terenyuh Aku berjumpa dengan si miskin papa nan pemurah

Sebaliknya aku gusar berhadapan dengan si kaya sombong,

munafiq, pemeras, penjilat dan penakut

Ada kesamaan ketika sejenak berpapasan dengan si penguasa yang zalim,

Menari-nari di balik tabir penderitaan rakyat,

bersembunyi di balik gunungan tulang- belulang hasil pembantaian,

pesta anggur pemabukan di genangan darah rakyat

hasil pelampiasan nafsu kekuasaan dan kerakusan

Kembali ku gusar, ketika kesadaran menjadi benda yang teramat mahal.

Hingga si kaya pun telah takut papa untuk mendapatkannya

Dan si miskin terjerat diperaduan palsu kenistaan

Kemana lagi harus ku bawa bahasa suci ini demi bebas nya jiwa- jiwa yang terjerat tali kebebalan

Yogyakarta 18 November 1999

english version:

The Stupid Soul

I am always touched to meet poor but generous people

In reverse it always makes me angry to face the arrogant richer, hypocrite, exploiter, bootlicker, and cowards

There is similarity when I once meet the evil ruler, who dances,

behind the layer of the people suffer, hides behind the mount of slaughtered bones, the party of drunken wine in the puddle of people’s blood

Resulted from the released passion of power and greediness

I am angry again, when the consciousness become the most valuble thing of which the rich are afraid of being poor if they get it.

And the poor is then trapped down in the counterfeit bed of stigma

Where to bring this holy language for the sake of freedom of the souls which are tied by the rope of foolishness

Yogyakarta November 18^th 1999

dEDY iBRAJOEM mOESA