Achmad Miswar Notes

I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times…
In life after life, in age after age, forever.
My spellbound heart has made and remade the necklace of songs,
That you take as a gift, wear round your neck in your many forms,
In life after life, in age after age, forever.

Whenever I hear old chronicles of love, it’s age old pain,
It’s ancient tale of being apart or together.
As I stare on and on into the past, in the end you emerge,
Clad in the light of a pole-star, piercing the darkness of time.
You become an image of what is remembered forever.

You and I have floated here on the stream that brings from the fount.
At the heart of time, love of one for another.
We have played along side millions of lovers,
Shared in the same shy sweetness of meeting,
the distressful tears of farewell,
Old love but in shapes that renew and renew forever.

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Rasanya Aku telah mencintaimu sekian abad, dalam sekian wajah..
Dari satu kehidupan ke kehidupan yang lain, dari zaman ke zaman, selamanya.
Hati saya yang terpesona dibentuk menjadi untaian kalung nyanyian,
Dimana kamu mengambilnya sebagai sebuah hadiah,
dipakai olehmu, di lehermu, dalam berbagai wujud,
dari satu kehidupan ke kehidupan yang lain, dari zaman ke zaman, selamanya.