{"id":1438,"date":"2025-06-13T06:57:34","date_gmt":"2025-06-13T06:57:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wpscentre-id.com\/?p=1438"},"modified":"2025-06-13T07:00:53","modified_gmt":"2025-06-13T07:00:53","slug":"my-ancestors-hill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wpscentre-id.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/13\/my-ancestors-hill\/","title":{"rendered":"My Ancestor\u2019s Hill"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My ancestor
has long slept beneath that mound of mountain,
wrapped in the forest that shields my village,
beneath a blanket of deep black golden stone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I ask You,
What is a book, O God?
Why does a book turn a stranger into a challenger,
armed only with my ancestor\u2019s black stone,
carried along the pulse of my earth\u2019s veins?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What is a hand, O God?
Why does the act of holding make me fall silent
When they arrive with guards,
shooting into a flock of prey
But that prey\u2026 is me, O God.
All this, only, only\u2026
for a patch of land to bury myself in, someday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What is a home, O God?
Why has a home turned unkind
to one who smells of earth and roots?
Once\u2026 this was my home, but You were my foundation of life.
I was Your worshipper <\/p>\n\n\n\n

them I do not know.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If You bury me beneath Your wrath,
then bury them beneath Your might.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This poem is a translation version of “Bukit Nenek Moyangku” that has been published on Kompas: https:\/\/www.kompas.id\/artikel\/puisi-puisi-ramita-paraswati<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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