Di mahligai pelangi, batinmu ziarah
di kubah suratan, menangkuk zarah
di saat yang sama, engkaukah dia
kelopak syair, bersemu bahagia
Hening kealaman, sangkalan sukma
kian melenjan, dengan amarah
kian enggan, tangan terbuka
menanti genggaman, api menyala
dari kulah hati tersimpan...
canda membara :
cinta kukuliti
maaf kurajami
tawa kujerangi
tangis kudustai
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apatah peduli
Helai hari-hari, melinting cerah pagi
lagukan lagu, angsa-angsa putih
lepas dan lepas, riang menari
taman rindu, menjadi saksi :
bakar kegentaran sudi
kirap tekad anugerahi
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melekang kini
Tuwuhan runduk menghormati
masih tersisa masih
rundungkan penyalahan diri
pergi tidaklah pergi
Sampai kapan terlahir, wujud bersilih pewarna baru?
seribu tahun disungting, ranting kelu daun melayu
tegar pun lilin bersanding, ragu pun tetap menyeribu
engkaukah onyak-anyik, rendaman malu?
Di menara aksara, bunga tanjung harum pemalu
sirna terselubung, di kerahiman bisu menggugu
jiwa elengan, kembara hendak bersipuh
ijinkan dia, mengetuk pintu :
Engkaukah lustre, di blantika mutiara?
niat bermirat, di saat yang sama :
kuasai diri
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imajinasi
Lagu ini dipopulerkan Mitch Leigh dengan lirik dari Joe Darion. Sangat menginspirasi dan banyak versi ditemukan di album penyanyi kawakan lainnya, juga film dan drama. Keterangan bersumber dari film musikal Man of La Mancha, tahun 1965. Kutipan lirik The Impossible Dream (The Quest). Klik untuk tampilan versi lain drama panggungnya :
2003 Tony Awards- "Impossible Dream" by Fatafown
Impossible Dream (The Quest) Lyrics
ALDONZA
Why do you do these things?
DON QUIXOTE
What things?
ALDONZA
These ridiculous... the things you do!
DON QUIXOTE
I hope to add some measure of grace to the world.
ALDONZA
The world's a dung heap and we are maggots that crawl on it!
DON QUIXOTE
My Lady knows better in her heart.
ALDONZA
What's in my heart will get me halfway to hell.
And you, Señor Don Quixote-you're going to take
such a beating!
DON QUIXOTE
Whether I win or lose does not matter.
ALDONZA
What does?
DON QUIXOTE
Only that I follow the quest.
ALDONZA
(spits)
That for your Quest!
(turns, marches away; stops, turns bock
and asks, awkwardly)
What does that mean... quest?
DON QUIXOTE
It is the mission of each true knight...
His duty... nay, his privilege!
To dream the impossible dream,
To fight the unbeatable foe,
To bear with unbearable sorrow
To run where the brave dare not go;
To right the unrightable wrong.
To love, pure and chaste, from afar,
To try, when your arms are too weary,
To reach the unreachable star!
This is my Quest to follow that star,
No matter how hopeless, no matter how far,
To fight for the right
Without question or pause,
To be willing to march into hell
For a heavenly cause!
And I know, if I'll only be true
To this glorious Quest,
That my heart will lie peaceful and calm
When I'm laid to my rest.
And the world will be better for this,
That one man, scorned and covered with scars,
Still strove, with his last ounce of courage,
To reach the unreachable stars!