Seruling Kebebasan/The Flute of Freedom

NASIR HASHIM

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[ENGLISH TRANSLATION BELOW]

Seruling Kebebasan

Dengar …. dengarlah
seketika cuma
Seruling bambu
mengalunkan
keluhan syahdu

Dengar … dengarlah
sejenak cuma
Gendang dipalu
menegur naluri
kaku membisu

Dengar … dengarlah
rempuhan arus insani
Sorak gempita
menembusi ufuk
dunia dan jaringan
penjara mangsa

Maka bergegarlah
bumi dipijak
Maka bergegaslah
kuasa bangsat
menangkis
tsunami rakyat

Sedar .. sedarlah duhai
insan
Hentikanlah leter
panjang mu itu
Asyik menyembah
imaginasi kematu
Sambutlah bara api
perjuangan sakti
Menjulang tinggi
menentang amalan
melipatgandakan
keuntungan
Membiakkan
kemiskinan,
pengabaian dan
penderitaan
Di celah celah rimba,
estet, bandar, desa,
kilang, pinggiran
sungai dan lautan

Izinkanlah seruling
bambu ini
berkumandangkan
lagu revolusi
Ikutilah gema gendang
bertalu menyusun
rentak perjuangan
bakti
Maka musnahkanlah
kluster pengkhianat,
perasuah dan hipokrit Dirasuk amalan
berkiblatkan
penindasan dan
pertuhankan
keuntungan

– Nasir Hashim

English translation

The Flute of Freedom

Listen… do listen
just for a moment
A bamboo flute
carries forth
a melancholic sigh

Listen… do listen
just for a while
As drums are struck
stirring instincts
frozen in silence

Listen… do listen
to humanity’s surge
Jubilant cheers
pierce the horizon
of the world and the prison victims’ web

So the earth trembles
beneath our feet
So the corrupt powers
rush to deflect
the people’s tsunami

Awaken… do awaken
dear human
Stop your endless
complaints
Cease worshipping
fossilised imaginings
Embrace the burning embers
of sacred struggle
Rising high
against practices
that multiply
profit
Breeding
poverty,
neglect and
suffering
Among forest depths,
estates, cities, villages,
factories, river banks
and oceans

Let this bamboo
flute ring out with revolution’s song
Follow the echoing drums
pulsing to arrange
the rhythm of
devoted struggle

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So destroy the clusters
of traitors,
the corrupt and hypocrites
Possessed by practices
that bow to oppression and
worship profit
– Nasir Hashim

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Nasir Hashim
Dr Mohd Nasir Hashim received a PhD in international nutrition from Cornell University. He served as the first chairman of the Socialist Party of Malaysia (PSM) for 23 years (1996-2019) and as the Selangor State Legislative Assembly member for Kota Damansara (2008-2013). These days, he enjoys writing poems, painting and playing the harmonica
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