Kata-Kata di Mata Anakku

Ada kata-kata di mata anakku
Menganga seluas samudra hitam
Debur ombak dan gelombang berpusar
Menjerat karang dan menjaring awan hitam
Di dadaku yang lebam oleh denyut jantung

Angin bersenyawa dengan hembus napas
Mengembunkan mata kecilnya, berbinar
Dan setiap kerling matanya adalah puisi
Mekar di padang tiah tersiram berkah hujan
Di kedalaman hati paling inti

Ada kata-kata di mata anakku
Tertulis sehalus angin yang bermain di lekuk bukit
Dan aku berdiri di puncak, mengeja cinta
Dari kata-kata yang mengembun di pelipis
Setiap ciumanku di keningnya
adalah getar langit ke surga

WORDS IN MY CHILD’S EYES

There are words in my child’s eyes
Gaping wide like the black ocean
Crashing waves and swirling tides
Snaring the reefs, trapping dark clouds
In my chest, bruised by the beat of the heart

The wind blends with every breath
Mist gathers on those bright little eyes
And each flicker of her gaze is a poem
Blooming in a barren field, blessed by rain
In the deepest core of my heart

There are words in my child’s eyes
Written as gently as zephyrs on hillside curves
And I stand on the summit, spelling out love
From the words that resembling dews on her temples
Each kiss I place upon her face
is the sky’s tremble, reaching the heaven