Confession Deep within your heart Guilt and contrition hide as a secret Sins you camouflaged Strive to deceive all eyes Piety for impressing the world Suffocating your soul Unsounded scream from your chest Rebels and opposes as a heavy breath You persist bathing in sins Building darkness Paralyzing your freedom Staying away from confession. Sublime Romanticism Your eyes, your words, your body movements A vivid message what you bury inside Many songs you composed as hidden adoration Like esoteric music caressing my soul Every verse with fragrant words Grow splendidly in my heart garden We sit alone there in silvery bench The way you confess your love Is sublime romanticism. Barter Transaction In confession We need strength, bravery and honesty Hard to lead ourselves to defend truth And destroying Satan within We are bordered by fear and indignity In avowing hard things Tossed in an ocean of doubt Whether we lost our face or gain tranquility Absorbed in skepticism of this barter transaction which offers two commodities: Give confession and get forgiveness.
EWITH BAHAR is a published author, poetess, novelist, translator and essayist from Indonesia. She had a long-time career in a mass communication field (radio and television industry). Prior to joining RCTI (The biggest private TV station in Indonesia) in 2004, she was a host for several musical and cultural programs for TVRI (Indonesian government TV station). This complements her passion who loves music, culture, psychology, philosophy and history greatly. She has published eleven books, in all genres: poetry, novel, short stories, and essays. Another three books are still in on-going process. Hundreds of her poems were published in many newspapers, journals and online medias, home and abroad. Her works also can be found in approximately more than 70 poetry anthologies in Indonesia and in many international anthologies. She herself once organized Indonesian poets to publish their works into ten poetry anthologies since 2014. And starting 2022, she plans to manage another poetry anthology project that will be joined by many world poets from five continents about Borobudur Temple, one of UNESCO world heritage sites in Indonesia that was built in the 8th and 9th centuries AD. Two years ago, in 2019, one of her poetry books, Sonata Borobudur, got a prestigious prize from Indonesian National Library as The Best Five Indonesian Poetry Books 2019. In November 2021, her single poem, “Imigran Digital” won the third place in a poetry writing competition, related to outstanding yearly Indonesian Poetry Day celebration, organized by Yayasan Hari Puisi (Poetry Day Foundation). Ewith Bahar’s poetical works have been translated into several foreign languages, such as English, Spanish, Indian, Serbian, Armenian, Uzbek, Tajikistan, Nepali, French, Italian, Arabian, Chinese, Macedonian and Korean. Besides writing career, Ewith was also a teacher at communication institutions, Interstudi and LEPPKINDO. And several years ago she also run a public speaking course for children and teens, coordinated by her own event organizer. She is now active in KaBi (Kanal Buku Indonesia – Indonesian Book Channel) and as a public speaker for creative writing, communication matters and bibliotherapy.
Confessions 