Merdeka! Merdeka! Merdeka!

Adakah ia semata-mata luangan kata-kata

Atau jeritan jiwa yang benar-benar merdeka?

Merdeka yang membuat kita angkuh bangga

Atau mengajak kita bersyukur rasa?

Pembesar Negara dimana-mana

Menggunakannya untuk menaikkan nama

Lupa diri, lupa Illahi

Langsung tidak muhasabah diri.

 Merdeka! Merdeka! Merdeka!

Pekikan mengusik telinga atau keinsafan rahmat Allah?

NikmatNya yang mana lagi kah hendak kita ingkari

Tidak mahu kah kita menyedari diri?

Apa gunanya bebas dari penjajah?

Jika masih dijajahi nafsu amarah?

Pembesar politik dan ulamak agama bermaharaja lela

Membohongi rakyat jelata dimana-mana

Memecahbelahkan umat disegi siasah dan fahaman

Menjadikan Negara tidak makmur dan aman.

Orang merdeka yang mempertuhankan manusia

Menjalani hidupnya sekadar sia-sia

Apa tidaknya jika  menukar tuan untuk memperkosa Negara?

Mengejar kepentingan peribadi walaupun Rakyat  sengsara.

Negara merdeka, Negara berdaulat

Daulat yang sebenar bersumberkan Maha suci

Munafikun dan fasikuun membuat kita ralat

Menjadikan kita hambaNya yang keji.

Merdeka! Merdeka! Merdeka!

Salam merdeka kepada yang benar-benar merdeka.

VANITAS VANITATUM

I loved this poetry when I was first introduced to it in Lower Six, not realising how relevant it will be today. "Vanitas vanitatum" is Latin and is often translated as "vanity of vanities". How relevant today.

VANITAS VANITATUM OMNIA VANITAS

by: Anne Bronte (1820-1849)

IN all we do, and hear, and see,
Is restless Toil and Vanity.
While yet the rolling earth abides,
Men come and go like ocean tides;

And ere one generation dies,
Another in its place shall rise;
THAT, sinking soon into the grave,
Others succeed, like wave on wave;

And as they rise, they pass away.
The sun arises every day,
And hastening onward to the West,
He nightly sinks, but not to rest:

Returning to the eastern skies,
Again to light us, he must rise.
And still the restless wind comes forth,
Now blowing keenly from the North;

Now from the South, the East, the West,
For ever changing, ne'er at rest.
The fountains, gushing from the hills,
Supply the ever-running rills;

The thirsty rivers drink their store,
And bear it rolling to the shore,
But still the ocean craves for more.
'Tis endless labour everywhere!
Sound cannot satisfy the ear,

Light cannot fill the craving eye,
Nor riches half our wants supply,
Pleasure but doubles future pain,
And joy brings sorrow in her train;

Laughter is mad, and reckless mirth--
What does she in this weary earth?
Should Wealth, or Fame, our Life employ,
Death comes, our labour to destroy;

To snatch the untasted cup away,
For which we toiled so many a day.
What, then, remains for wretched man?
To use life's comforts while he can,

Enjoy the blessings Heaven bestows,
Assist his friends, forgive his foes;
Trust God, and keep His statutes still,
Upright and firm, through good and ill;

Thankful for all that God has given,
Fixing his firmest hopes on Heaven;
Knowing that earthly joys decay,
But hoping through the darkest day.

"Vanitas Vanitatum Omnia Vanitas" is reprinted from Poems By Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell. Charlotte, Anne, and Emily Bronte. Philadelphia: Lea and Blanchard, 1848.

CrystalBall: Six Little Pigeons

Thanks to this site for the picture.

One little, two little, three little pigeons,
four little, five little, six little pigeons,
why little, why little,why little pigeons,
why didn't you fly away?

One little, two little, three little pigeons,
four little, five little, six little pigeons,
why little, why little,why little pigeons,
one has to be caged away.

One little, two little, three little pigeons,
four little, five little, six little pigeons,
why little, why little,why little pigeons,
see the cat that is coming your way?

One little, two little, three little pigeons,
four little, five little, six little pigeons,
why little, why little,why little pigeons
five will be chased away.

One little, two little, three little pigeons,
four little, five little, six little pigeons,
why little, why little,why little pigeons
being pigeons, cant be eagle anyway.

One little, two little, three little pigeons,
four little, five little, six little pigeons,
not little, not little, not little pigeons
pigeons cause histoplasmosis by the way!

PEACE !