Kamis, 11 Juli 2019

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How do you detach your soul from someone whom you think you will spend the rest of your life with?
The answer is, I didn’t know. Yet.

Love is strange, isn’t it? How one day you thought you’d still be with certain someone, and then the next day, you fell apart and found yourself alone questioning your times together. But I guess, after having some thoughts, it’s not that sudden. Deep down, after countless fights, I always knew, we’re not compatible with each other. We just forcing ourselves to keep being together based on some kind of illusion which our body’s chemistry created: a human primal instinct to survive. Turns out, reasons loose with some kind of primitive urge *insert bitter chuckle here*. I always hoping that I’m a human with my own free will, my own desire, with rational thinking like those philosophy books I’ve read, because it’s hard to be someone who always poured my soul to everything I did or said in this cold and sleepless reality: but of course I failed, miserably. Geez, this is hard. Writing these stuff… is harder than I thought. By writing it, I have to acknowledge all of these happened in my life, all of the feelings that I felt and still feel, with all of my conscious and subconscious minds.

If I may become melancholic for just a while here, perhaps.. Just perhaps.. It’s what the universe wanted me to experienced. After all, the universe is bigger than me. Bigger than us.

Selasa, 09 Juli 2019

Kemiskinan itu Bernama Sartre

Kemiskinan itu Bernama Sartre






Kamu tahu kemiskinan serupa borgol
yang ikatnya menyita seluruh hidupmu juga hidup pelancong
yang tadak sengaja melongok ke dalam matamu.

Anak-anak tidak lagi mengepal harap dan belajar.
Setiap inchi pundaknya tumbuh mata air
yang riaknya dipenuhi nganga tanya dan kecemasan-kecemasan akan esok.
Deras dan memegapkan.

Seserok, dua serok, juga minggu dan bulan
yang kamu angkut bersama batu dan pasir
yang menjadikan setapak bagi kami untuk melongok-longok ke dalam redup matamu.

Matamu, seorang pendongeng tabah yang sesekali ingin membenturkan diri
pada kisah-kisah hebat tentang Sartre dan ide-ide kebebasannya.
Tapi matamu yang lebih sering ingin terpejam itu enggan berakrib dengan waktu.
Waktu adalah repetisi nanar nasib yang setiap detiknya memakui segala umpama.
Kebebasan bagimu merupakan Chanel No.5--parfum mewah
yang aromanya asing dan tidak sampai pada pucuk hidungmu:
seperti kesempatan memilih besok makan apa.


Pekalongan, 30 Juni 2019.