Jesus Christ

Jesus Christ  (1943)  by Chairil Anwar, translated by Burton Raffel

The Complete Poetry and Prose of Chairil Anwar, Albany : State University of New York Press, 1970, pp. 68-69.

to the true Christian

This Body
Bleeding
Bleeding

Fallen
Broken

Floats up a question: am I to blame?

I see that bleeding Body
And what I see in that blood is: me

Reflected brightly in the eye of time
This will change form, soon

Close its wounds

I am glad

This Body
Bleeding
Bleeding


1943.11

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