are you still playing your flute
TRANSCRIPT
ARE YOU STILL PLAYING YOUR FLUTE?
By: Zurinah Hassan
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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Stanza 01:
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
STANZA 02STANZA 02
Line-by-Line Meaning: Stanza 02
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.
Line-by-Line Meaning: Stanza 02
Stanza 02:
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
STANZA 03STANZA 03
Line-by-Line Meaning: Stanza 03
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
Line-by-Line Meaning: Stanza 03
Stanza 03:
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
- THE END -- THE END -