Sama-samalah kita baca, selami dan hayati sajak ni kerana ianya masih relevan hingga hari ini walaupun setelah lebih 30 tahun dicipta oleh sasterawan kesayangan kita semua SN Allahyarham Dato' Dr. Usman Awang. Saya sangat suka dengan sajak ni, sampaikan hampir setiap hari saya membaca dan menghayatinya. Ini versi B.I. nanti saya akan post-kan versi asal (B.M)


I

They separate us
the passports visas frontiers all names for barriers
they rob us with their laws
sending bullets wrapped in dollars
forcing us to choose
and choose we must
there is no other way

II

Friend, you have chosen guns and bullets
many leaders prefer their dollars
for this you must soak your clothes
red grass, red river
children’s weeping
the blood of the exploited

III

You squeeze cactus and grind stones
to make food and drink
girls toil decorated in dust
little children sling on their weapons
you darken the sky with exploding pipelines
others sing in prisons
for the freedom of Palestine

IV

We strive in drying rice fields
daring peasants have begun to clear the virgin jungle
small beginnings in a cloudlike calmness
a calmness that nips us in the bud
we the few are still learning
from all your experiences,
and our own

we shall consolidate the May eclipse
at the true target
of this archipelago

V

Greetings
without visa
passport
golf
colour
to humanity, people,
of all continents.

sajak nie sama la dgn sajak salam benua...

laaa... pasnie kita translate sajak nie dlm bahasa rusia ....