BUANASENI

Hutang

Lemah longlainya kaki aku

Kusut serabainya kepala aku

Apabila dihitung hutang,

..... yang selama ini tidak diperlaku

Seribu hari puasanya tak tentu

Dan diabaikan pula rakaat dua ratus ribu

Belum lagi zakat yang beribu-ribu

Sempatkah lagi bila masaku sudah tepu?

Atau harus aku terus redah jalan berliku?

Membayar apa yang patut selagi laku

Oh! Tuhan, tenangkanlah hatiku yang pilu

Kerana aku terasanya sangat malu

Dengan Engkau aku mengaku

Layakkah aku menerima kurniaanMu?

DiberiNya anak syurga kepadaku

Yang akan menghulur tangan menarik jiwaku

Sedangkan dosa-dosaku penutup pintu

Dan aku naik saksi tidak sanggup juga aku,

..... untuk menahan panasnya nerakaMu

Oleh Jo Haq

22 April 2024

10:30 malam

Bukit Jelutong

Malam Yang Rendang

Awan malam bak pohon rendang

Tebarnya bagaikan bercabang

Dedaunnya segar dan kembang

Angan-angan aku pun melayang

Jauh ke Hospital Selayang

Cukup pantas masa disailang

Tau-tau 24 kali bulan berulang

Teringat insan yang aku sayang

Dia sudah pergi dan hilang

KepadaNya jua dia pulang

Tidak ditinggalkan pun bayang

Tidak pula diberinya peluang

Untuk aku membuat dia riang

Hidup ini terasanya amat kurang

Sehingga air mata titis terlinang

Aku harap dia sentiasa tenang

Dan tidak dibiarkan seorang

Berdoa aku dalam sembahyang

Semoga dia sudi kunjung datang

Di dalam mimpiku sebelum siang

Di kala malam awannya rendang

The Promised Land

Go back, go home

Where you came from

You bloody Penangites!

Go back to your promised land

For you are the people of the island

And your tongue desires the spices

And your feet longed the ocean splashes

Have you not any love and desire to go?

To walk the streets of Gelugor

Or to scream, swear and hate

At the motorist with 'P' plates?

Go home, go wander

You bloody islander

Nothing less than RM300 per square feet

And certainly anything more would be great

By Jo Haq

11 April 2024

10:41pm

Bukit Jelutong

Distrust, Loath and Disbelief

Do we trust the person who is looking for an answer?

.... and distrust the person who says he has found the answer?

For the questions with no answers we should desire,

.... and loath the answers that we cannot question

Are we to find faith?

.... and if so, must we first be in disbelief?

Because when we have faith,

.... we are already certainly bias

So, those are the questions we are faced,

.... for trust, desire and faith

Or,

.... for distrust, loath and disbelief

By Jo Haq

11 April 2024

10:14pm

Bukit Jelutong

As the Fair Sun Sets Today

As the Fair Sun sets today

It shimmers across His Milky Way

Ending Ramadhan as it bows to Pray

Closing books accepting No More pay 

It submits well to sacrifice its Ray

Allowing the Moon to Eclipse in its way

But what does Humanity have to say?

When Rafa is Blackened with forays

And its sky in Penumbra haze

Nevermind the Dead under the gray

For they are Martyrs as when they Lay

Leaving the Universe for God to slay

As the Sun rises on Judgement day

By Jo Haq

9 April 2024

30 Ramadhan / 1 Syawal 1445

7:21pm

Bukit Jelutong