DERMAGA PELABUHAN MAPUTO, MOZAMBIQUE

Ku tak pernah

Injakan Timor Timur

Bumi Loro Sae

sampai mereka merdeka

Nun di Mozambique,Afrika

kutelusuri jalan-jalan kota Maputo

yang dulu Laurenzo Marquas

Di persimpangan jalan

patung-patung menjulang

restoran,taksi masih menolak

lihat warna kulitku

Dermaga sesak

barang dan orang bersatu

nantikan kapal tuju Portugis

tinggalkan Afrika

Mereka ,

mencibir,memaki tuduhku penjajah

saat mereka tahu aku Indonesia

Kata mereka

di sini kami mengalah

Timor Timur jangan kira

Tatkala

Timor Timur Merdeka

Aku tak kaget lagi

MAPUTO  PORT, MOZAMBIQUE

I have never
landed on Timor Timur
Bumi Loro Sae
until their independence
Down in Mozambique, Africa
I walked through streets of Maputo city
formerly known as Laurenzo Marquas
At the corner
statues stuck out
restaurants, cabs refused
looking at my skin color
The port was crowded

goods and people were piled up

awaiting ships to Portuguese
abandoning Africa
They,
humiliated, cursed and called me colonialists
when they found me Indonesian

They exclaimed
We retreat
but  Timor Timur  never does

When
Timor Timur proclaimed independence
I was no longer surprised !