Adapted from Chairil Anwar’s “AKU”
When my time has come
I want no body to persuade me
Not even you
No need this sob
I am just a wild beast
From my own herd, exiled
Even when bullets lodge my skin
I am still at rage and lunge
Wound and venom accompany my escape
Run
Until the agony vanished
And I’ll be more ignorant
I want to live a thousand years more
March 1943
Pusat Bahasa Al Azhar 