motionless

the gray sky
melts. into
blue.

i cried while
hiding.
behind its dripping drops.

motionless
as the trickled ground.

down.
forgotten.

open letter

Tonight we shall wave adieu beneath the tall shadows of these trees. It will be a promise to vow our absences after this last meet. But you should know my heart, my dear, before we leave. It's deeply sadden by a reason of an ache that it's learned how to inveigle, to obfuscate itself that it believes in its lies. Lies that concerns you and your heart, and me, and mine. Lies that it had to construct so now it would not shatter so when we kiss our last kiss. It deceives by exchanging reality with the wrong truth - my wrong truth. Forgive my heart, because it wanted me to be your constant; all the while it was becoming tired of the pace you are leaving it with defeat. And while you have become my touchstone it realized it is not yours. Forgive my heart, my dear, it was hoping for the best. It knows well that you are my true heart, the center of my soul. But tonight we shall wave adieu beneath the tall shadows of these trees.

I will bow out and we shall say goodbye.

Misty Eyes Tonight.

She remembers that night too well. As the tides were coming close to her feet, she recalls the night years ago when she fell deeper into the starry sky above and the warmest see breeze she had ever felt. A head rest on her shoulders that night and they both counted the uncountable stars. They both enjoyed how the sand stuck between their toes felt; calming, soothing, perfect to ease the pain out of their hearts. She recalled to herself how much she loved the man who leaned on her shoulders. How, then, gently he got his head up and gave her his shoulder to lean on, and counted not the stars anymore, but things they'd rather be doing than this; and there were none. How they loved each other and that night.

Over the years she remembers that night by heart while he is now away and never coming back. Yet she's still not letting go of anything he'd ever was. Waiting in perpetuity, as the memories form a hope of another acquaintance, another time of a starry, starry night. But on this night, this particular night, all she remembers is the memory of them being afraid.

Tonight, she is standing on the beach of several years past and remembers how she soundlessly cried for realizing this world was never meant for him. Tonight, she chooses to wallow in grievance for her loss.

Tonight, is the night of all nights.

To Your Unborn Child and Your Leaving

intro: A man was nearly killed today @ Bantar Gebang while he was collecting trash for him to sell to feed his family. The garbage pile was too huge to handle and formed a small hill that almost befallen him. He was lucky. His 3 friends haven't been found. But they were luckier. A woman was found dead. Unlike the 3 men, that 5months-old child inside of her will never knew life at all.

have you read hemingway's 'baby shoes'?*
as it was, this is a short reference
of a sad grievance
i feel as if we have been acquainted

i bid you farewell
i offer you apologies
of people leaving behind trashy bits
from this consuming way of life

we have buried you over
with plastic truths and lies;
demoralization leftovers
we shoo away with red trucks

to your unborn child and your leaving;
up there you'll have clean air
so you're welcome to look down
and be grateful for your sooner departure

to your unborn child and your leaving;
this is my heart here,
it's
yours to take

ketika aku sedang ingin menangis merindukanmu

kau lihat awan yang bergulir-gulir di atas situ?
itulah yang kusuka dari langit
seperti aku menyukai jalanan kosong
melompong ketika malam sebentar lagi menjelang pagi
aku menyukai sepi yang tidak terlihat keramaiannya
aku menyukai ramai yang terlihat kesepian

insomnia

silence had me stiff
and i waited for
the sun to rise well
laying thoughts upon thoughts
resting hope upon hope

the clock points the hour
and the hour after that
and one more, but
pointless is this night
my eyes won't shut

tiresome, but
my eyes won't shut
and already comes
along with the dew;
a plan of staying awake for the moon

Alergi

Teman,
aku akan merindu
duduk diam bersamamu
menanti matahari meluntur senja
bersama awan yang merona merah

Broken Voodoo

it's now just a puppet
with no heart
or a pin stuck to it

i lost my voodoo
on you

Trippers By The Tides

don't you feel drunk?
i do. i see two of you
no matter though
i love looking at you

i love the spinning beach
how 'bout you?
then let's have another toast
get drunk and take off our shoes

let's run crazy funny on the sand
build up some castles and kick it again
don't bother rolling up your jeans
just let your feet touch the melting sea

let's converse about something, aimless
about kaleidoscopic eyes we're having right now
or just let tonight be tonight and
for a final let our kisses be goodbyes

so let us be trippers again
this one last night
until we are tired of being drunk
the next morning, when it's time to go back
to the world.

last kiss goodbye

oh hi,
i didn't see you there
then again i've never had you here
you went unseen somewhere

i caught a glimpse of you once
but i blocked the memory so it bounced
behind the enemy line i stood
sorry to say but i was fighting my dear old you

so when did you get here?
i thought you'd be nowhere near
so naturally i'm wrong again this time
you've crept your way all through my mind

it's not that i don't like you
i do, in fact, i really love you
but in a way i sincerely don't, clearly
because i always always end up teary

hush, not a word, i say
let this be my time to lay
to lean my head and close my eyes
to walk away and say goodbyes

so let this be a final closure
lets drift our ways apart, together
and yes, i will pine for you
but only because i wanted to

i will miss you the most
but you should be nothing but a ghost
here's my last kiss of adieu
keep it in your heart, forget you had it in you

getting close to the end

i think i'm gonna stay
i'll make you love me someday
i'll train to be numb
or at least to act less dumb

i'll lock away the reveries
i'll bury all the memories
sufficiently, i'll remember some things
although no more than just some flings

but that summer night on that terrace
while the others were nowhere near us
i'll keep the memory running inside
that is one thing i will not fight

i'll keep in mind the song that was playing
and the horrible voice who was singing
and all the friends i didn't know
and the buoys with lights that glowed

in the meantime while i don't see you
pretend you miss me, pretend like you do
because maybe if you get used to it
your heart and mine would eventually fit

the guy in front me was dorkily cool.

and he always always try
to walk unseen by the looking crowd
while they wonder who is this person
that walks so unintentionally intriguing.
but none of them dares
to ask why he walks that way,
or whether he would stop one day
just to let them see a while longer.
they give up to the idea
that he's forever in a hurry.

Disakiti Malam

Malam dingin selalu kejam
tidakkah kau setuju?
bukankah pundakmu gemetar karenanya?
tidakkah matamu mulai berair karenanya?

kemari.
menangislah di sampingku malam ini.

Dipermainkan Hujan

Tidakkah kau lihat
di seberang sana
awan mulai menerang
hujan rupanya perlahan menetas,
meludah sembarangan
ke aspal jalanan

Aku dan kamu
(kita berlarian mencari pepohonan)
berharap dahan berdaun mampu
berperan menjadi payung menahan hujan

aku dan kamu
(kita kebasahan di bawah pepohonan)
kita memilih dahan yang salah
tangis, tetesnya ke kepalaku

Aku dan kamu hari itu
(kita kuyup kehujanan)
menangis bersama diam-diam
mengambil kesempatan tertimpa hujan

Kutungu Hadirmu, Nanti, di Sini

sayang sekali, sayang
cinta tak berbentuk rupa
dengan hati saja jarak tidak terlupa
sedangkan rinduku terus menggila.

sudahkah kau lihat keluar?
apakah jendelamu terbuka?
bulanmu malam ini apa?
tanyakan padanya tentang rindu yang kutitipkan.

kutunggu hadirmu, nanti, di sini
berdiri di sampingku, di sisi jendela
menunjuk-nunjuk langit bersama-sama.
menggelembungi hati dengan cinta.

apakah jendelamu terbuka?
di langitku sudah terbit sang purnama.
bulanmu malam ini apa?
sudahkah kau tengok dirinya?

apakah pesan rinduku yang ia bisikkan?
apakah letup hatiku yang ia sampaikan?

Kamu Luar Biasa Hebatnya

berbicara denganmu rasanya selalu aneh.
entah senang, entah sedih.
terkadang terbang..
tapi tak jarang aku juga mati.
bertemu pandang denganmu rasanya sakit
karena kamu melihat tembus ke belakangku;
ke kerumunan muda di sebelah sana,
ke keramaian orang mengelilingi meja.
kamu luar biasa hebatnya
bermain peran menjadi tuhan.
entah kenapa aku memberimu cinta
sedang kamu terus memutus asa.

kamu tahu dia, si putus asa?
perlahan, aku sedang dirayapinya.

short ones also. no titles.

We'd lift Andy Warhol off his sentenced insanity
we would even try to praise his art of genital parts.
we'll love his grey messy hair covering his eyes
because yours is unloveble, and is no more than a crime.
________

make today my day
won't you write me a love song?
sing me away,
sing for me a lifetime long..
________

it would be long before the time you knew,
until you took a step and time to view
that im not dreaming of something new
my reverie has always been about you.
________

Solois Tambal Sulam

berlakulah manis hanya padaku
karena aku sedang menambal hati,
sendirian:
tambal sulam penuh kekosongan.

aku semakin jauh,
takkan terlihat olehmu.
takkan terlihat olehmu.
takkan terlihat olehmu.

to loneliness, to drowning

i didn't know how it would hurt;
the pouring dusts of untold pains
that you secretly sprinkled on me.
but it burned, burned, burned me to my soul.
like loneliness seeping through the dirt on your grave.

won't you care i'm hurting?
would you notice i'm gasping for air?
to the ground i fall, shattering apart
and you're pinning me down, down, down,
down to the mausoleum beneath the waves

i'm drowning away to a land underwaters
where everything is nothing and they're insidious
to the dry i say goodbye, i'm too lost to reach back home
and for a fact i cried, i cried, and i cried,
for being lonely once again, once more.

we are omnipresent, we are free

it is at night we are awake
and during slumbers our souls wander
dreams become what is real
we live without our eyes wide open

it is at night we gather around
holding hands, embracing our souls
during sleeps we dream of our lives
in golden slumbers we plan our tomorrows

some claimed to have faced and seen
winged beauty of angels and of seraphs
but while dreaming, we see each other,
and seeing each other is enough

loafers perhaps are we
but if so, we did it perfectly
we paint the walls with insobriety
we are omnipresent, we are free

we all dream our days at night
while the moon shine through the shrouding clouds
we sit by the lake, we ponder and state proud
'here we are! here we stand well and alive!'

we lay on our backs on the ground
look up to the sky and enjoy the setting sun
but this is a dream, it's cunning and mean.
sunsets are dawn, and with dawn reality begins.

at night we are a nation
of youth, pride, and compassion.
we laugh joyously with our hearts
through the dark silent night we meditate loud

but we learn laughters are frail
they fade as the sun shines its ray
soon it is 'so long', and 'goodbye',
to love, to memories, and to the good times.

i miss you

look over here
we're so far apart.
we hardly see each other,
i can't barely feel your heart.

come back, love.
where are you right now?
i need to hold you tonight.
i need to desperately cry.

Hatiku Pecah Ketika Pesawatmu Berangkat

ketika pesawatmu berangkat
seiring dengan terbitnya senja
langitpun memudar
dan malam muncul tanpa cinta

ketika awan nila menelan
habis bayangmu di pelupuk mentari
hatiku mati, jatuh tertelungkup
meringkuk sepi menantimu kembali

mungkin hatiku pecah
berkeping beling, berbelah darah.
tetapi sayangku, ketika 14 purnama berlalu
kau 'kan kembali dan aku 'kan masih ada di sini

moral awakening

if you're asking
about what's real
and what's illusive,
and nobody
could figure it out,
ask me.
i would love to answer.
what's illusive,
is a happy life.
since we made it up
inside our heads,
and believe it with our hearts.
but at the same time,
we see with our eyes
that what's real,
are the bloody headless bodies,
the dry ice blocks on top of corpses,
and mothers killing their babies.

Kamu Tau Kamu Tabu?

Apa saja bolehlah.
Aku juga tak begitu peduli.
Memang keacuhan yang aku harapkan.
Kamu tau kamu tabu?
Menyenangkan,
namun membunuhku pelan-pelan,
dramatis.
Nyawaku naik turun dibawamu.
Dengan kebaikan yang bersifat racun
walau kamu mungkin memang tulus.
Seiring detik berdetak dalam larinya,
aku menghitung
sisa-sisa nafas yang tertinggal.
Kamu mencuri nafasku
dengan senyummu.
Ketika menit bertumpuk
menjadi hitungan jam,
aku merasa jantungku kian melemah.
Kamu menusuk jantungku,
dengan matamu.
Pelan-pelan kamu merampas hidupku,
tapi aku menikmatinya.
Kamu tau kamu tabu?
Aku mencintaimu,
tapi kamu membunuhku perlahan dan diam-diam.

Kenangan

Hari itu, pukul 10 pagi. Aku datang duluan, menunggumu di sebuah kafe, mendudukkan diri di bangku paling depan. Paling dekat dengan pintu. Dengan begitu aku bisa melihatmu ketika kamu datang. Dan juga agar kita berdua bisa sama-sama cepat-cepat keluar dari kafe ini sekaligus percakapan kita nanti.

Di depanku gelas kertas putih setinggi 15 cm berisi latte siap kutenggak.

Tak kusentuh.

Kubeli hanya sekedar untuk memenuhi tuntutan kafe ini untuk bisa duduk di dalamnya.

Dingin.

Ataukah aku menggigil karena deg-degan? Takut, barangkali?

Ya, mungkin memang itu.

Gugup.

Ingin semuanya cepat berakhir, dan sekarang perasaan itu mengambil alih kakiku yang bergerak naik turun dengan irama supercepat…mungkin sedikit banyak syarafku sudah rusak.

15 menit. Tak biasanya kamu terlambat. Kamu selalu tepat waktu bahkan datang sebelum aku. Tak pernah membuatku menunggu.

Tapi mungkin ini caramu menyiksaku.

Mungkin kamu sudah tau isi percakapan kita nanti dan ini caramu menyiksaku.
Menunggumu dan bertahan gugup setengah mati lebih lama lagi.

Ketika kamu datang, sosokmu yang terlihat jelas menjadi bukti bahwa kursi yang kupilih benar. Dengan mudah mataku langsung menangkap jaket warna krem favoritmu itu.

Seakan sedang menikmati wahana di sebuah taman ria, jantungku berdegup cepat mengiringi tiap langkahmu mendekati pintu kafe.

Setelah memasuki kafe, kamu layangkan sejenak senyummu ke arahku kemudian berjalan ke counter tempat pengunjung memesan minuman.

Kamu membuatku menunggu lagi.

Jantungku berdegup lebih cepat. Memompa darahku lebih deras hingga aku merasa ledakan kecil di kepalaku.

3 menit kemudian pesananmu selesai diracik. Gelasnya sudah kamu pegang. Kamu berbalik perlahan dan berjalan ke arahku. Mulai detik itu waktu berjalan lambat.

Semuanya terlihat seperti film-film lama. Vivien Leigh dan Clark Gable bermesraan di belakangmu, melakonkan adegan dari Gone With The Wind, menari waltz bersama, dengan warna hitam putih, dalam slow motion.

Jantungku berdetak keras.
Kamu melangkah.

Detak, lalu langkah.
Detak, lalu langkah.
Detak, lalu langkah.

Kamu duduk.

Jantungku berhenti.

Dan kitapun, tanpa kata, berpandangan sedih.

Aku Sudah Bilang Kamu Tabu

balon yang diberimu tak pernah bertahan.
terbawa angin, kalau tidak meletus.
terkadang dengan kuatnya membawaku terbang,
untuk meletus di tengah awan,
menjatuhkanku kembali ke tanah
hingga hancur berserakan.
dan aku sudah bilang kamu tabu,

bahkan balon darimu adalah candu.

Penjaja

aku berteman
dengan lampu malam kota
yang menggoda manusia
untuk terlelap ketika dini hari tiba.

aku,
perempuan hina yang mengais pengampunan.

Songs to Sing

just like Georgia you're a sweet, sweet song
and i could keep on singing you a lifetime long
and while mister matthews sings, 'crash into me'
with ms. austin i hum along, 'say you love me'

when in need

incase you didn't know
i like being needed.
won't you help me?
pretend you need me.

Hi, Hello

Hey!
i meant 'hi...hello.'
would you, please, stay?
keep me from feeling hollow?

right there, don't move.
for a couple of moments
here, i think, you'll gain proof
of what you haven't

here goes: i love losing
the opportunities to see you
it helps me in quitting
-although not so much working
and forgetting how much i adore you

but here's a secret:
i still miss you;
though in a distance
i did try to keep you