Ikaw

IKAW

Tula ni Vladimir Mayakovsky

Malayang salin ni Gregorio V. Bituin Jr.

Dumating kang -

may kapasyahan

sapagkat ako'y malaki,

sapagkat ako'y umaatungal,

datapwat sa masusing pagsusuri

nakita mo'y isang lalaking paslit.

Iyong dinagit

at inagaw ang iwi kong puso

at sinimulang

ito'y paglaruan -

na parang babaeng may bolang tumatalbog.

At bago ang himalang ito

ang bawat babae'y

alinman sa mga namamangha

o dalagang nagtatanong:

"Ang ibigin ang ganyang tao?

Bakit, baka suntukin ka niya!

Marahil tagapagpaamo siya ng leyon,

isang babae mula sa kulungan ng hayop!"

Subalit ako'y matagumpay.

Hindi ko maramdaman -

ang singkaw!

Nakalimot sa saya,

ako'y tumalon

at napalundag hinggil, sa nobyang mapula ang balat,

Nakaramdam ako ng ligaya

at gaan ng loob.

Isinalin: Hunyo 17, 2024

Maynila, Pilipinas

* litrato mula sa google

YOU

Poem by Vladimir Mayakovsky

You came –

determined,

because I was large,

because I was roaring,

but on close inspection

you saw a mere boy.

You seized

and snatched away my heart

and began

to play with it –

like a girl with a bouncing ball.

And before this miracle

every woman

was either a lady astounded

or a maiden inquiring:

“Love such a fellow?

Why, he'll pounce on you!

She must be a lion tamer,

a girl from the zoo!”

But I was triumphant.

I didn’t feel it –

the yoke!

Oblivious with joy,

I jumped

and leapt about, a bride-happy redskin,

I felt so elated

and light.

mula sa: https://www.marxists.org/subject/art/literature/mayakovsky/1922/you.htm