Sajak untuk Fahmi Reza (Malay/English)

Oleh Hassan Karim

[ENGLISH TRANSLATION BELOW]

Anak muda yang berkarya
Malam ambang tahun baru ini
Kamu dikurung di lokap jenayah
Letih abang-abangmu dulu
Setiap unjuk rasa
Beribu turun ke jalanraya
Untuk bina negara bebas bersuara
Kini kamu menyaksikan sendiri
Yang dulu mengepalai demo
Sedang bertakhta di Perdana Putera

Lalu dekri diumum Corong Bernama
Hasutan bernama satu Akta
Dilepaskan seperti anjing liar

Awas anak-anak muda yang berkarya
Karyamu adalah subversif
Kepada sang koruptor
Gerombolan penguasa kini ketakutan
Anak muda merdeka fikiran
Jadi suatu ancaman
Tetapi selamanya
Geng otoriter, diktator dan oligarki lupa
Anak-anak muda adalah pelopor revolusi di mana jua.

– Hassan Karim

English translation by Malaysiakini

Poem for Fahmi Reza

Young one creating art,
On this New Year’s Eve night,
You are confined in a criminal lockup.
Your elder brothers once grew weary,
Every protest,
Thousands took to the streets.
To build a nation of free speech,
Now you witness with your own eyes,
Those who once led the demonstrations,
Now enthroned in Perdana Putra.

Then came a decree announced by Bernama,
Sedition named as an Act,
Unleashed like a wild dog.

Beware, young artists,
Your works are deemed subversive
To the corrupt.
The ruling gang now lives in fear,
Of free-thinking youths,
Becoming a threat.
But forevermore,
The authoritarians, the dictators and the oligarchs forget,
That young people are the pioneers of revolutions everywhere.

– Hassan Karim

Hassan Karim is the MP for Pasir Gudang.

Source: Malaysiakini

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