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ARE YOU STILL PLAYING YOUR FLUTE? By: Zurinah Hassan

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Page 1: Are you still playing your flute

ARE YOU STILL PLAYING YOUR FLUTE?

By: Zurinah Hassan

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STANZA 01STANZA 01

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Stanza 01:Are you still playing Your flute?

When there is hardly time for our love

I am feeling guilty

To be longinglonging for your song

The melody concealedmelody concealed in the slim hollow of the bamboo

The persona wonders if he is still playing his flute.

Even when they don’t have time for each other

The persona feels wrong

For missingmissing his music

The song is hiddensong is hidden in the bamboo shaft

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Uncovered by the breath of an artist

Composed by his fingers

Blown by the wind

To the depth of my heart

Revealed by an artist.

The song created by his fingers

Brought by the air

Directly to my heart

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STANZA 02STANZA 02

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Stanza 02:Are you still playing Your flute?

In the village so quiet and deserted

Amidst the sick rice field

While here it has become a luxury

To spend time watching the rain

The persona wonders if he is still playing his flute.

The village is empty

The rice fields are unwell

But where the persona is, you can just sit around and watch the rain fall.

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Gazing at the evening rays

Collecting dew drops

Or enjoying the fragrance of flowers.

watching the sunset

gathering the drops of dew

or smelling the sweet smell of flowers

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STANZA 03STANZA 03

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Stanza 03:

Are you still playing your flute?

The more it disturbs my conscience

to be thinking of you

in the hazard of you

The persona wonders if he is still playing his flute

The more it bothers the persona

to think of him

it is wrong for the persona to think of him

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my younger brothers unemployed and desperate

my people disunited by politics

my friends slaughtered mercilessly

the world is too old and bleeding

because young men do not have work and are desperate.

people are divided because of politics

those closest to the persona are killed without mercy

the world is troubled and falling apart

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