Zack de la Rocha Tulis Puisi untuk Occupy Wall Street
Jumat, 18 November 2011
Zack de la Rocha jarang menutup diri pada isu-isu sosial dan politik, baik menjadi aktivis atau bermusik dengan Rage Against The Machine dan One Day as A Lion. Setelah evakuasi pemerintah New York terhadap Zuccotti Park (tempat Occupy Wall Street) pada 15 November, de la Rocha sekali lagi menggabungkan dua nafsunya dengan menulis puisi yang menyatakan dukungannya terhadap gerakan Occupy Wall Street.
"Puisi ini didedikasikan untuk keberanian gerakan Occupy yang mengubah dunia. Tetap Kuat. Kita pasti menang," katanya dalam satu pernyataan yang menyertai puisi itu.[act/timBX]
Berikut puisi yang dibuat Zack de la Rocha:
The beginning spills through city veins
Into the arteries
And under powers poison clouds
We move like the shadows
Through the alley ways
Through nightmares bought and sold as dreams
Through barren factories
Through boarded schools
Through rotting fields
Through the burning doors of the past
Through imaginations exploding
To break the curfews in our minds
Our actions awaken dreams of actions multiplied
A restless fury
Once buried like burning embers
Left alone to smolder
But together stacked under the walls of a dying order
All sparks are counted
Calloused hands raised in silence
Over the bonfire of hope unincorporated
It's flame restores tomorrows meaning
Across the graveyards of hollow promises
As gold dipped vultures pick at what is left of our denial
And the youngest among us
Stare at us stoned like eyes determined
And say
Death for us may come early
Cause dignity has no price
At the corner of now and nowhere
Anywhere
Everywhere
Tomorrow is calling
Tomorrow is calling
Do not be afraid
-- Zack de la Rocha
