Tadi malam saat keluar rumah menghirup udara segar sekira pukul 21.00 saya sempat kaget mendengar suara teriakan: HOEEEHH‼ Sangat keras. Tengok kanan tengok kiri tak ada orang. Lalu saya ingat kalau di dekat tikungan ujung jalan pada jarak sekira 30 meteran ada penampungan hewan kurban. Sebenarnya bukan penampungan, melainkan "kios kaget" yang menyediakan kambing untuk dibeli. Tentulah salah satu di antara kambing-kambing itu yang 'berteriak' seperti tadi.
Lalu melayanglah ingatan saya pada syair lagu Donna Donna yang dinyanyikan oleh Joan Baez. Lagu merdu mendayu yang diiringi gitar akustik itu seakan kembali terngiang di telinga saya. Liriknya sedemikian indah mengisahkan sebuah balada penuh makna. Bagian lirik yang menurut saya paling menyentuh adalah yang berbunyi "but whoever treasures freedom ... like the swallow has learned to fly. Berikut ini saya cantumkan lirik lengkapnya.
"Donna Donna"
On a wagon bound for market
There's a calf with a mournful eye
High above him there's a swallow
Winging swiftly through the sky
How the winds are laughing
They laugh with all their might
Laugh and laugh the whole day through
And half the summer's night
Donna, Donna, Donna, Donna
Donna, Donna, Donna, Don
Donna, Donna, Donna, Donna
Donna, Donna, Donna, Don
"Stop complaining", said the farmer
Who told you a calf to be?
Why don't you have wings to fly with
Like the swallow so proud and free?
How the winds are laughing
They laugh with all their might
Laugh and laugh the whole day through
And half the summer's night
Donna, Donna, Donna, Donna
Donna, Donna, Donna, Don
Donna, Donna, Donna, Donna
Donna, Donna, Donna, Don
Calves are easily bound and slaughtered
Never knowing the reason why
But whoever treasures freedom
Like the swallow has learned to fly
How the winds are laughing
They laugh with all their might
Laugh and laugh the whole day through
And half the summer's night
Donna, Donna, Donna, Donna
Donna, Donna, Donna, Don
Donna, Donna, Donna, Donna
Donna, Donna, Donna, Don