a clot of silence
a quiver in the bowels of the night
suddenly falls on to a mirror
sprinkling the fragrance of fragipani
to the earth around mother’s cemetery
my hands the soft silk
as though arranging velvet
reaching for Your heaven
that hushes all secrets
suddenly
my odorous and dirty face
kneels
at the door Your ears
then to say a million prayers
prayers of purity from sin
prayers of freedom from revenge
prayers full of regret
prayers that request a million
forgiveness.

(translated by MHS)

Posted by Mukhtar Awang a.k.a Moechtar Awang on Wednesday, September 2, 2009
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1 Responses to Surrender I

  1. abuyon Says:
  2. salam cikgu dan Qayyum,

    Mari, atas nama Tuhan yang agung
    dan rahman, kita hulurkan dua tangan,
    dan sejuta hati kita bersalaman dari
    denyutnya yang paling
    tenang dan dalam

    Selamat Hari Raya — dari kami sekeluarga
    Maaf zahir dan batin, nampak dan tak
    nyata, dari hujung ke hujungnya

    p/s: nak duit raya Tok Ki Ta, pakcik Qaf..
    pinta anak-anakku ..hehe

     

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Kota Bharu Bandaraya Islam, Islamic, Malaysia
Born in Kelantan on 19 February 1956, Moechtar Awang received his early education in Kota Bharu before participating in the Descriptive and Creative Writing Programme, University of Malaya, where he obtained his BA in 1986. His collection of poems Pasrah (1981) won the Putra I Poetry Award. His second collection of poems Qaf was published in 1986. He is currently teaching at a secondary school in Kelantan.

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