Aku (English Version)

Aku

(poem by CHAIRIL ANWAR)

If my time should come

I'd like no one to entice me

Not even you

No need for those sobs and cries

I am but a wild animal

Cut from its kind

Though bullets should pierce my skin

I shall still strike and march forth

Wounds and poison shall I take aflee.

Aflee'Til the pain and pang should disappear

And I should care even less

I want to live

for another thousand years