Melalui jarak Dan celah
Adalah nafas Dan kekuatan
Adalah harapan tak berkesudahan
Adalah perlindungan tanpa imbalan
Doa tanpa henti setiap hari
menjadi penopang kaki berdiri
Tetes keringat menjadi bukti
Bahwa kasih tak berhenti
Saat hujan badai menerjang
Saat panas terik meradang
Rumahku adalah tempat terbaikku
Dimana aku Dan hatiku
dibesarkan sang ibu
Dimana setiap berkah
tak luput dari kerja keras sang ayah
Dimana kebahagiaan bukan tentang uang
Eli Nur Fadilah was born in a small Village in Cilacap, Central Java. She has been working in Singapore since 2011 as a domestic worker, and has always had an infatuation for stories and the art of writing since she was a child. She was one of the winners for the Migrant Workers Story Telling Competition in 2018, and is also one of the poem and story contributors for the two anthologies: Call and Response and Familiar Strangers. She volunteers at Voice of Invisible Hands Singapore when she has the time. Eli believes words are very powerful, and that through writing understanding can be created that would make the world worth living.
Tse Hao Guang is the author of The International Left-Hand Calligraphy Association (Tinfish Press, 2022) and Deeds of Light (Math Paper Press, 2015), the latter shortlisted for the Singapore Literature Prize. He is a 2016 fellow of the University of Iowa's International Writing Program, and the 2018 National Writer-in-Residence at Nanyang Technological University. His poems appear or soon will in Poetry, Poem-a-Day, Dreginald, Tammy, New Delta Review, Pain, Minarets, Big Other, Entropy and elsewhere. He was born and raised in Singapore, where he continues to live and work.
