Sahabat Yang Hilang..

Kenal siapa Charles Hanson Towne? Lahir 1877, meninggal dunia 1949. Aku pun tak pernah jumpa dia, tapi aku baca karya-karyanya. Seorang penyair, penulis, editor dan selebriti popular kat New York masa zamannya. Tak nak cerita banyak pasal dia pun, cuma nak berkongsi salah satu sajak dia yang paling aku suka. Kenapa aku suka? Sebab sajak ni mengingatkan aku pada kawan-kawan yang jauh aku tinggalkan, tapi tak pernah aku lupakan. Ingatan pada sebuah perhubungan tak pernah padam, walau jarak yang menjauhkan. Hati yang sentiasa hampir sering mendoakan kesejahteraan, kebahagiaan. Semoga Allah jualah yang menjalinkan hati-hati yang merindu..

AROUND THE CORNER

Around the corner I have a friend,

In this great city that has no end,

Yet days go by, and weeks rush on,

And before I know it, a year is gone.

And I never see my old friend's face,

For life is a swift and terrible race,

He knows I like him just as well,

As in the days when I rang his bell.

And he rang mine but we were younger then,

And now we are busy, tired men,

Tired of playing a foolish game,

Tired of trying to make a name.

"Tomorrow," I say, "I will call on Jim,

Just to show that I am thinking of him".

But tomorrow comes and tomorrow goes,

And the distance between us grows and grows.

Around the corner, yet miles away,

"Here's a telegram, sir", 'Jim died today'.

And that's what we get and deserve in the end:

Around the corner, a vanished friend..