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Sajak Kemarin

Awal ini sedari kursi putih
Menghadap cermin
Mencari, mengingat, tanpa mengenang

Lalu datanglah harapan;
Kumbang-kumbang
Kunang-kunang
Nyala-nyala
Bukan kupu-kupu,
sama saja…
Semenjak senja sampai tak lagi bertemu.

Kaulah waktu…
Berdebur, bergulir, berlalu
Membawa semua,
Satu seribu sejuta,
Seluruh orangku…

Sehingga,
Akulah menunggu
Seperti kapas
Seperti gunung
Seperti dahaga
Sepertiga selamanya
Sisanya melayang, padam…

Terlampaukah dirasa?
Siapa sangka?
Tepuk-tepuk
Pelan-pelan
Saksi mata
Senang-senang…

Aku tanpa waktu,
Berubah ‘ku mampukah?

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Autumn is Tamed Egos

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Autumn feels like how it appears in colors:

rosy yellow, young brown, and fading green.

It is that comfort. That effortlessness.

Of listening to songs you love when you are a kid.

Accidently finding your once-lost-favorite treasure.

Waking up without a struggle. Easy. Without any rush.

Letting go of a long-held grudge.

Hugging your anger with tenderness.

Making peace with your own guilt.

The art of enjoying being not in control.

It carries a patience to start over.

Discarding your graceful green, to be beautiful.

A never-ending forgiveness.

Autumn is tamed egos.

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to Bed With Fire

In retrospect,
It was not at all incipient.
The first ignition,
was more than seeded,
maniac enough.

A rush of fire bloomed,
nearly unready,
to bear in me,
a sweeping fiery roses of blazes,
over-blossomed.

Enraged. Almost insufferable.
It melted down all,
prematurely, way too quickly.

It was somewhat frightful.
Yet, we met in it.
Not sure how consciously.
For me, partly bravely: risking.
But haven’t we, already? Then, than that?

Then came these intruders, disguised as a safeguard.
“Do we burn the same?”
A longing to foresee. Ahead of reality.
“Will we run out of fuel?”
and another,
“Will I suffocate alone in the ashes-
in the end?
Clear enemy: delirium.
Yet, still well-nigh impossible to ignore.

While still yearning for answers,
I’ll serve the waves of bright flashes and flares,
If it burns, i’ll surf with it.
But, if it does not, i’ll bury it, peacefully.

To accept to let go,
but to also give it a go.
Without giving in or up.

Being aware that,
some days were colder than another.
Darker than before I was without you,
some nights, the thoughts were louder than the truths.

Nevertheless, it burns dearly,
or nevermore is not silly.
I’ll feed the flame, certainly.
I’ll bed with it, nonchalantly.

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A Trite Night

Vincent was playing in the back of my head
Starry starry night…
As I cried out to the people I have hurt
for a rather cloudy help
to survive this yet another trite night.

“Sometimes we do things for our own good and other people get hurt,”
Gloria shared her sense.
As I counted what I have given to life
to only discover the false and fault,
having hearts of theirs wounded as the result
of me, taking love for granted…
“That is what I thought so,” James concurred.

Now I understand,
Ellie sang.
What you tried to say to me.

To start sweetly, to be longed for,
to end sourly, to be left out with a bitter aftertaste
a medicine prescribed for this crime.

Better be an abandonment,
one wished it was that after all,
but one can only doubt oneself.
And how you suffered for your sanity.

Is this how this uneventful night will end?
With lights coming from the corners of
windows that are always curtained
with anxiety, memories, and wishes?
Don continued, how you tried to set them free.
I stopped. I let the world move forward, this time.

Because nevertheless,
the sun does not care if you died that night.
But these people you hurt. Those with love for you.
They care more than the sun,
there they are before the morning after,
stars during an ungodly trite night.

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You See Through


All this time,

I don’t mind being an ordinary person
Not to stand out among the crowd
and be a party that everyone likes,
I am fine being a nobody
I don’t need to shine bright.

But I wonder if it’s a crime?
When I found you,
I know you’re the one.

Then, I want you to see me
I want to stand out among the crowd
I want you to recognize me
But I’m not a star
I don’t light up in the dark night.
Everyone else is special but me.
How can you see me?

I was desperate for your attention.
Trying everything, keep on failing.
How can I believe it?
Among the sparks around me…
In the end you choose me.
Like I’m number one.

Even when all I had was a heart that’s full for you.
A fool in love that you see through.
This ordinary man who falls and false.

From time to time,
I don’t mind being an ordinary person
Not to stand out among the crowd
and be a party that everyone likes,
I am fine being a nobody
I don’t need to shine bright.
for everyone elses.

But for you,
I want to be extraordinary
Become the special color in your life.

Thank you for choosing me, 
this ordinary man…
And accepting a foolish heart
that is always ready to lose for you.

That you see through.
Is more than enough…

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