V
I've learnt
the ways of the rude
to hold reality in a a new logic
debate with hard and loud facts;
but I too am humble, respecting
man and life
VI
I am not a new man
not very different from you
the people and cities
of coastal parts
taught me not to brood
over a foreign world,
suffer difficulties
or fear possibilities
I am you
freed from the village,
its soils and ways
independent, because
I have found myself
~Si Tenggang's Homecoming
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Mommy (read it with the Toys'R'Us tone),
ReplyDeleteYou got the uppercase and lowercase wrong, I presume. Not faithful to the original "si tenggang's homecoming" (notice the lowercase)
No matter...I am placing the emphasis in my context ...can?
ReplyDeleteHaha... no prob... :)
ReplyDeleteIt's just that the poet deliberately used lowercase to differentiate between the one in the classics and the persona in this poem~