Air Supply

I know just how to whisper
And I know just how to cry
I know just where to find the answers
And I know just how to lie

I know just how to fake it
And I know just how to scheme
I know just when to face the truth
And then I know just when to dream

And I know just where to touch you
I know just what to prove
I know when to pull you closer
And I know when to let you loose

And I know the night is fading
And I know the time’s gonna fly
And I’m never gonna tell you
Everything I gotta tell you
But I know I gotta give it a try

And I know the roads to riches
And I know the ways to fame
I know all the rules
And I know how to break ‘em
And I always got to get in the game

But I don’t know how to leave you
And I’ll never let you fall
And I don’t know how you do it
Making love Out nothing at all

Out of nothing at all, out of nothing at all
Out of nothing at all, out of nothing at all
Out of nothing at all
Making love out of nothing at all

Every time I see you all the rays of the sun are
Streaming through the waves in your hair
And every star in the sky is taking aim at your eyes
Like a spotlight

The beating of my hearth is a drum and it’s lost
And it’s looking for a rhythm like you
You can take the darkness from the pit of the night
And turn into a beacon burning endlessly bright

I’ve gotta follow it ‘cause everything I know
Well it’s nothing till I give it to you

I can make the runner stumble
I can make the final block
And I can make every tackle at the sound of the whistle,
I can make all the stadiums rock!

And I can make tonight forever
Or I can make it disappear by the dawn
And I can make you every promise that has
ever been made, and
I can make all your demons be gone

But I’m never gonna make it without you
Do you really wanna see me crawl
And I’m never gonna make it like you do
Making love out of nothing at all

Out of nothing at all, out of nothing at all
Out of nothing at all, out of nothing at all
Out of nothing at all, out of nothing at all
Out of nothing at all

kutanggalkan mantel serta topiku yang tua
ketika daun penanggalan gugur
lewat tengah malam. kemudian kuhitung
hutang-hutangku pada-Mu

mendadak terasa: betapa miskinnya diriku;
di luar hujan pun masih kudengar
dari celah-celah jendela. ada yang terbaring
di kursi letih sekali

masih patutkah kuhitung segala milikku
selembar celana dan selembar baju
ketika kusebut berulang nama-Mu; taram
temaram bayang, bianglala itu

1961

batu mawar
batu langit
batu duka
batu rindu
batu jarum
batu bisu
kaukah itu
teka
teki
yang
tak menepati janji?

Dengan seribu gunung langit tak runtuh dengan seribu perawan
hati tak jatuh dengan seribu sibuk sepi tak mati dengan seribu
beringin ingin tak teduh. Dengan siapa aku mengeluh?
Mengapa jam harus berdenyut sedang darah tak sampai mengapa
gunung harus meletus sedang langit tak sampai mengapa peluk
diketatkan sedang hati tak sampai mengapa tangan melambai sedang
lambai tak sampai. Kau tahu?

batu risau
batu pukau
batu Kau-ku
batu sepi
batu ngilu
batu bisu
kaukah itu
teka
teki
yang
tak menepati
janji?

kubiarkan cahaya bintang memilikimu
kubiarkan angin yang pucat
dan tak habis-habisnya gelisah
tiba-tiba menjelma isyarat merebutmu
entah kapankah bisa kutangkap…

bathoke ela-elo

si romo menyang solo

payunge payung metho

tak gendher lho-lho lobah

wong mati ora obah

yen obah medeni bocah

dhuku cilik cilik

ngandhong apa mbecak

mlaku thimik thimik

adhik ndherek ibu

tindak menyang pasar

ora pareng rewel

ora pareng nakal

mengko ibu mesthi

mundhut oleh-oleh

kacang karo roti

adhik diparingi

Tokecang tokecang bala gendir tosblong
Angeun kacang angeun kacang sapependil kosong

source: tembang dot com

hapunteun mah eu-ceu
abdi hapunteun
bilih aya kalelepatan

source: tembang dot com

Mambu kutundung gudel … pak hempong, lera… lere…

Sopo ngguyu ndelekake……

Sir … sir … pong, dele gosong…

Putraku si ande ande lumut….
Tumuruna ana putri kang unggah unggahi…..
Putriku kang ayu rupane………
Kleting kuning kang dadi asamane……
Bu…si Bu… kulo mboten purun…..
Puti niku sisane si yuyu kangkang…

Gambang suling kepenak unine…
Tulat tulit..kumandang swarane ..
u…unine mung..nrenyuhake..
Bareng lan kencrung…
Ketipung suling…
Sigrak kendandangane…

I crave your mouth, your voice, your hair.
Silent and starving, I prowl through the streets.
Bread does not nourish me, dawn disrupts me, all day
I hunt for the liquid measure of your steps.

I hunger for your sleek laugh,
your hands the color of a savage harvest,
hunger for the pale stones of your fingernails,
I want to eat your skin like a whole almond.

I want to eat the sunbeam flaring in your lovely body,
the sovereign nose of your arrogant face,
I want to eat the fleeting shade of your lashes,

and I pace around hungry, sniffing the twilight,
hunting for you, for your hot heart,
like a puma in the barrens of Quitratue.

A Song of Despair
translated by w.s.merwin
The memory of you emerges from the night around me.
The river mingles its stubborn lament with the sea.

Deserted like the dwarves at dawn.
It is the hour of departure, oh deserted one!

Cold flower heads are raining over my heart.
Oh pit of debris, fierce cave of the shipwrecked.

In you the wars and the flights accumulated.
From you the wings of the song birds rose.

You swallowed everything, like distance.
Like the sea, like time. In you everything sank!

It was the happy hour of assault and the kiss.
The hour of the spell that blazed like a lighthouse.

Pilot’s dread, fury of blind driver,
turbulent drunkenness of love, in you everything sank!

In the childhood of mist my soul, winged and wounded.
Lost discoverer, in you everything sank!

You girdled sorrow, you clung to desire,
sadness stunned you, in you everything sank!

I made the wall of shadow draw back,
beyond desire and act, I walked on.

Oh flesh, my own flesh, woman whom I loved and lost,
I summon you in the moist hour, I raise my song to you.

Like a jar you housed infinite tenderness.
and the infinite oblivion shattered you like a jar.

There was the black solitude of the islands,
and there, woman of love, your arms took me in.

There was thirst and hunger, and you were the fruit.
There were grief and ruins, and you were the miracle.

Ah woman, I do not know how you could contain me
in the earth of your soul, in the cross of your arms!

How terrible and brief my desire was to you!
How difficult and drunken, how tensed and avid.

Cemetery of kisses, there is still fire in your tombs,
still the fruited boughs burn, pecked at by birds.

Oh the bitten mouth, oh the kissed limbs,
oh the hungering teeth, oh the entwined bodies.

Oh the mad coupling of hope and force
in which we merged and despaired.

And the tenderness, light as water and as flour.
And the word scarcely begun on the lips.

This was my destiny and in it was my voyage of my longing,
and in it my longing fell, in you everything sank!

Oh pit of debris, everything fell into you,
what sorrow did you not express, in what sorrow are you not
drowned!

From billow to billow you still called and sang.
Standing like a sailor in the prow of a vessel.

You still flowered in songs, you still brike the currents.
Oh pit of debris, open and bitter well.

Pale blind diver, luckless slinger,
lost discoverer, in you everything sank!

It is the hour of departure, the hard cold hour
which the night fastens to all the timetables.

The rustling belt of the sea girdles the shore.
Cold stars heave up, black birds migrate.

Deserted like the wharves at dawn.
Only tremulous shadow twists in my hands.

Oh farther than everything. Oh farther than everything.

It is the hour of departure. Oh abandoned one!

pada suatu hari nanti
jasadku tak akan ada lagi
tapi dalam bait-bait sajak ini
kau tak akan kurelakan sendiri

pada suatu hari nanti
suaraku tak terdengar lagi
tapi di antara larik-larik sajak ini
kau akan tetap kusiasati

pada suatu hari nanti
impianku pun tak dikenal lagi
namun di sela-sela huruf sajak ini
kau tak akan letih-letihnya kucari

ada yang sedang menanggalkan
kata-kata yang satu demi satu
mendudukkanmu di depan cermin
dan membuatmu bertanya

tubuh siapakah gerangan
yang kukenakan ini
ada yang sedang diam-diam
menulis riwayat hidupmu
menimbang-nimbang hari lahirmu
mereka-reka sebab-sebab kematianmu

ada yang sedang diam-diam
berubah menjadi dirimu