2001-Poem “Show Me the Meaning of Life”


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        <h2>Show Me the Meaning of Life</h2>        
    By: Nopiranti</p>       
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    <p style="text-align: center"><strong>Show Me the Meaning of Life</strong><br />By: Nopiranti</p><p style="text-align: left">Translated by: Ima Normalia Kusmayanti<br />(Presented on English Day 2001 in the Indonesia University of Education and won the Award for the Best Poem)</p><p style="text-align: center">O… bird<br />Is it beautiful up there?<br />I wish to have wings<br />So I can fly and hide behind the shady tree<br />When I don’t want to set eyes on anyone<br />Only, I’m afraid of height</p><p style="text-align: center">O… sea<br />Is it beautiful down there?<br />I wish to be a fish<br />Feeling free to swim wherever I urge<br />Being friends with various colors and motions<br />Flowing in melodious flows<br />Only, I can’t swim</p><p style="text-align: center">O… moon<br />How do you feel being the night’s tiara?<br />I wish to be the light for this world<br />Shining brightly when darkness comes<br />Guiding the lost to the right path<br />Only, I’m afraid of dark<br />O… rainbow<br />How heavenly is it like out there?<br />I wish to be those colors<br />Lining the beauty<br />Creating millions of hopes<br />Sending a pinch of love<br />For those divine souls<br />Only, I too, feel lonely</p><p style="text-align: center">Ah…too many things I long<br />As if I never had enough<br />Solely, life is beautiful<br />I just don’t know how to cherish it</p><p style="text-align: center">O…bird<br />O…sea<br />O…moon<br />O…rainbow<br />Show me the way to see<br />How beautiful life is<br />When it is filled with love

 


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