Langit tak Berbintang (16)

Langit tak Berbintang (16)
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"AMAN," kato Maria dalam hati. Ha us, dia mampir ke kedai khusus do gan.

Sudah lama dia tak minum dogan. Tak tanggung-tanggung, Maria pe san tiga dogan sekaligus.

Minum di tempat ...

Maksudnya?

Dogan yang dibelah bagian atasnya diletakkan di atas meja. Supaya le bih nikmat dimasukkan es batu.

Lalu dihisap pelan-pelan pakai pi pet ..

Pengunjung kedai lumayan bany ak. Lebih dari separo bangku terisi. Ada juga memilih duduk lesehan di tanah lapang bawah pohon kelapa yang lebat buahnya.

Kedai dogan ini, selain menjual es dogan berbagai rasa, untuk lebih memanjakan pelanggannya, pihak kedai mempersilakan memetik bu ah dogan di pohonnya.

Tak perlu bersusah payah untuk me manjatnya. Karena di batang poh on dibikin lekukan untuk kita me napak saat menaiki pohon kelapa.

Asyik bukan?

Di sebelah kanan kedai ada pang gung dan seperangkat alat band se perti gitar, organ, drum dan alat tiup harmonika serta seruling.

Maria memberanikan diri naik ke atas panggung. Spontan pengun jung kedai bertepuk tangan.

"Arabian Night, itulah lagu yang di pilih dan dibawakan Maria kali ini ...


Oh, imagine a land, it's a faraway place
Where the caravan camels roam
Where you wander among every culture and tongue
It's chaotic, but hey, it's home

When the wind's from the east
And the sun's from the west
And the sand in the glass is right
Come on down, stop on by
Hop a carpet and fly
To another Arabian night

As you wind through the streets at the fabled bazaars
With the cardamom-cluttered stalls

You can smell every spice
While you haggle the price
Of the silks and the satin shawls

Oh, the music that plays as you move through a maze
In the haze of your pure delight
You are caught in a dance
You are lost in the trance
Of another Arabian night

Arabian nights
Like Arabian days
More often than not are hotter than hot
In a lot of good ways

Arabian nights
Like Arabian dreams
This mystical land of magic and sand
Is more than it seems

There's a road that may lead you
To good or to greed through
The power your wishing commands
Let the darkness unfold or find fortunes untold
Well, your destiny lies in your hands

Only one may enter here, one whose worth lies far within. A diamond in the rough

Arabian nights
Like Arabian days
They seem to excite, take off and take flight
To shock and amaze

Arabian nights
'Neath Arabian moons
A fool off his guard could fall and fall hard
Out there on the dunes"