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Cloudy Time Walls

1 min lectură·27 august 2004

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I hear a cock crowing before dawn.

It gives me a picture of my old days,

The very beautiful moments in life

When I was like a colt in the field.

No alarm clock we needed to buy

For our cocks were ready to crow

No costly truck we meant to have

For horses were steady to move.

Every morning I bathed in sunlight

Every night I watched the moonlight

Our fields were ready to serve us rice

Our cows were glad to pour us milk.

When the rice was turning yellow,

We all spent more time in the fields,

And all hungry sparrows were enemies

For they tried to steal our golden grains.

Time is not running, but flying like a jet.

Its cloudy walls remain impossible to leap

To return to yesterday though we insist.

A picture in mind is all we have to keep.

Nowadays, my days are the days of today,

The crowing cock keeps praying for liberty,

I can see the sunlight only when it is high

And no meadow is cheap for me to buy.

Jogjakarta, 21 August 2004

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Yohanes Manhitu. “Cloudy Time Walls.” Atelier, Poezie.ro, https://poezie.ro/atelier/yohanes-manhitu/poezie/84396/cloudy-time-walls

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