Friday, July 1, 2016

Chrysogonus' Translation #96 - from Beatrice Machet's "promise"

janji

kata-kata
yang di antara janji tertiup
dan aliran nafas seseorang

sebuah sumpah ketika ‘aku berjanji’ terucap
aku tak akan jauh dari peluk hangatku bagi
kulit telanjangmu

di mana aku akan  menulis kata ‘janji’
terukir pada kejutan semata

karena cinta tak pernah ingin menjadi cinta

Words
and in between a promise blown
with one’s breath flowing

an oath when one says I swear
I’ll be the distance from wrapping you like a blanket to 
your bare skin 

on which I’ll write words a promise 
engraved on mere surprise 
because love never aimed at being love

1 comment:

  1. Thanks Chrys and warm hellos from sunny France ! miss you ...!

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