- MENYEPILAH -

Dimana kita mengenali diri kita yang sebenarnya?

Didalam selubung kesendirian

Suara-suara bising mengalihkanmu 

Membuatmu bahagia atau bersedih

Menutupi jejak panggilan jiwamu

Maka tersesatlah kita, 

dari diri kita yang sesungguhnya

Terpenjara dalam hingar bingar semua orang

Menyepilah sejenak

Menjauhlah sesaat dari kerumunan

Telusuri lagi relung-relung jiwa

yang mungkin terlupakan

Semua pertarungan kita dengan waktu 

tidak terjawab oleh uban yang memutih

melainkan mata yang menerawang

Biarkanlah dia mengembara hingga jauh

Ragamu menghadapi dunia

Biarkan ia yang lelah, tetapi bukan dia

Hingga keduanya sampai 

pada suatu masa penantian 

Berharaplah ia dan dia, 

masih berjalan beriringan

Lalu sambutlah damai

Sambutlah damai

Having a Coke With You

is even more fun than going to San Sebastian, Irún, Hendaye, Biarritz, Bayonne

or being sick to my stomach on the Travesera de Gracia in Barcelona
partly because in your orange shirt you look like a better happier St. Sebastian
partly because of my love for you, partly because of your love for yoghurt
partly because of the fluorescent orange tulips around the birches
partly because of the secrecy our smiles take on before people and statuary
it is hard to believe when I’m with you that there can be anything as still
as solemn as unpleasantly definitive as statuary when right in front of it
in the warm New York 4 o’clock light we are drifting back and forth
between each other like a tree breathing through its spectacles

and the portrait show seems to have no faces in it at all, just paint
you suddenly wonder why in the world anyone ever did them

I look at you and I would rather look at you than all the portraits in the world
except possibly for the Polish Rider occasionally and anyway it’s in the Frick
which thank heavens you haven’t gone to yet so we can go together the first time
and the fact that you move so beautifully more or less takes care of Futurism
just as at home I never think of the Nude Descending a Staircase or
at a rehearsal a single drawing of Leonardo or Michelangelo that used to wow me
and what good does all the research of the Impressionists do them
when they never got the right person to stand near the tree when the sun sank
or for that matter Marino Marini when he didn’t pick the rider as carefully as the horse

it seems they were all cheated of some marvelous experience
which is not going to go wasted on me which is why I am telling you about it

Frank O’Hara

DAN JARAK DIANTARA KITA

Adalah lautan luas yang membentang
Melalui gelombang dengan buih putih
Takkan kau dengar aku berdendang
Nyanyikan rasa rindu yang begitu perih

Aku bahkan begitu jauh dari tepi pantai
Merindukan aroma laut dan deburan ombak
Lalu bagaimanakah asa itu kan ku gapai
Semakin kupikirkan semakin rindu ini sesak

Perahu berlayar tanpa pelita
Terhempas badai karam saat pagi
Dan jarak diantara kita
Lama baru akan pergi