蔗尾蜂房

[情境]
--Chairil Anwar,
…………………………………………
別這樣，女人！活在我心裡的人
仍然敏捷地避開了暗地裡惱人的摟抱，
拗執地尋找另一片青色的海
並還佇留在以前相遇的那艘船，
鬆開舵隨著風，
眼睛被守候的星星牽引。
打包好的又給鬆綁了
李太白與秘密的安汶海
那麼女人！某一道模糊的綫
只能這樣刻寫上去
就是朝那決絕的微笑奔去。

1946


[Situasi]
--Chairil Anwar

………………………………………………
Tidak perempuan! Jang hidup dalam diri
masih lintjah mengelak dari pelukanmu gemas gelap,
bersikeras mentjari kehidjauan laut lain,
dan berada lagi dikapal dulu bertemu,
berlepas kemudi pada angina,
mata terpikat pada bintang jang menanti.
Sesuatu jang mengepak kembali menandungkan
Tai Po dan rahsia laut Ambon
Begitulah perempuan! Hanja suatu garis kabur
bias dituliskan
dengan pelarian kebuntuan senjuman.


[Situation]

No, woman! What lives in me
Still dodges away from your sour, dark embace,
Hunting as hard as it knows for the green of some other sea
And that ship where we first met,
Letting the wind be the steersman,
Eyes glued on a waiting star.
Something that was flapping its wings goes back to prating
About Tu Fu and the secret of the Ambon Sea.
And that’s that, woman! All I can write
Is a single blurred line
In my race to that unresolvable smile.


．Burton Raffel, ed. & trans., The Complete Poetry and Prose of Chairil Anwar, Albany : State University of New York Press, 1970, pp.110-111.