Apa yang Tak Mungkin Diwujudkan

Sajak Edgar A Guest

MEREKA bilang itu tak mungkin diwujudkan
      Tapi engkau dengan menyimpan tawa akan menjawab
bahwa "mungkin itu memang tak mungkin," tapi engkau
      tak akan mengatakan itu sampai engkau mencoba.
Maka engkau hadapi dengan segaris senyuman di wajahmu.
      Engkau ragu dan cemas untuk mewujudkan itu.
Tapi, engkau mulai bernyanyi dan engkau datangi yang
      tak mungkin itu, lalu engkau mulai bekerja.

Mereka mengejek: "Oh, kau tak akan pernah bisa;
     Terbikti sudah, tak ada yang pernah bisa";
Tapi engkau buka jaketmu, dan engkau gantung topimu,
     Dan lihatlah, engkau mulai mengerjakannya,
Dengan tengadah dagu, dan sedikit seringai,
      Tanpa keraguan, tak hirau pada cemoohan
Tapi engkau mulai bernyanyi dan engkau datangi
      yang tak mungkin itu, lalu engaku kerjakan.

Ribuan orang bilang itu tak mungkin dilakukan,
      Ribuan orang meramalkan kegagalan;
Ribuan orang - satu per satu - mengatakan padamu
      Bahaya yang menghadang untuk menggagalkan engkau.
Tapi hadapi saja dengan segaris senyuman,
      Gantung jaketmu dan hadapi tantangan itu;
Mulai bernyanyilah, raih apa yang "tak mungkin itu",
      dan engkau yang akan mewujudkannya.

IT COULDN'T BE DONE
by Edgar A. Guest

Somebody said that it couldn't be done,
    But he with a chuckle replied
  That "maybe it couldn't," but he would be one
    Who wouldn't say so till he'd tried.
  So he buckled right in with the trace of a grin
    On his face. If he worried he hid it.
  He started to sing as he tackled the thing
    That couldn't be done, and he did it.

  Somebody scoffed: "Oh, you'll never do that;
    At least no one ever has done it";
  But he took off his coat and he took off his hat,
    And the first thing we knew he'd begun it.
  With a lift of his chin and a bit of a grin,
    Without any doubting or quiddit,
  He started to sing as he tackled the thing
    That couldn't be done, and he did it.

  There are thousands to tell you it cannot be done,
    There are thousands to prophesy failure;
  There are thousands to point out to you one by one,
    The dangers that wait to assail you.
  But just buckle in with a bit of a grin,
    Just take off your coat and go to it;
  Just start to sing as you tackle the thing
    That "cannot be done," and you'll do it.