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Jumat, 22 Maret 2019

Demi Apapun, Ini Pukul 1 Pagi




Jam rumahku berdentang 12 kali saat ini, sangat jarang aku mendengarnya berdentang seperti itu karena tak selalu aku terjaga di jam ini seperti saat ini.

Waktu kecil, orang tua suka sekali menasihati kita yang masih kanak, "jangan terjaga melebihi tengah malam". Kata orang-orang tua, yang tak terlihat suka menampakan diri di jam ini. Kata kakekku, Patung Pancoran yang biasa tak bergeming melihat kemacetan di bawah kakinya akan turun dari tahtanya dan pergi buang hajat ke toilet di jam ini. Walau di usiaku kini aku  berkawan dengan malam dan akrab dengan gelap, tapi ternyata omongan mereka tak begitu penuh kebohongan.

Jangan terjaga melebihi tengah malam;
lalu aku berusaha memejamkan mata, menghitung banyaknya pekerjaan yang belum selesai.
Namun sial, tiba-tiba wajahmu ada di sana, karena kau adalah salah satu dari banyaknya pekerjaan yang belum selesai.

Jangan terjaga melebihi tengah malam,
karena karena yang tak terlihat suka menampakan diri di jam ini.
Sialnya, baik yang tidak terlihat dan tidak terasa tiba-tiba nampak setelah beberapa saat hilang.

Berbulan-bulan usahaku menormalkan ketidakhadiran dan memaklumi sebuah perpisahan tanpa kalimat selamat tinggal akhirnya menemukan titik jenuhnya.

Maka malam ini, kuakui saja dosaku dalam senyap;
bahwa mungkin sebuah kehidupan tanpamu tidak akan pernah jadi sesuatu yang wajar,
bahwa perpisahan tanpa kalimat selamat tinggal tidakakan bisa dan tidak perlu untuk dimaafkan,
bahwa selama ini aku hanya berpura-pura tidak kehilangan apa-apa.

Pengakuan dosa kulakukan dalam senyap,
pelan-pelan lewat tulisan,
karena walau penyerahan ini bergemuruh keras dalam diriku, aku tak sanggup membuatnya gegap gempita;
pun merongrong dan meronta pada pemilik rindu aku tak bisa.

Karena centang satu ini tak kan berteman dan jadi dua.
Karena yang terkirim tidak akan pernah terbaca.
Karena sunyi ini tak kan maju menjadi bunyi.

Demi apapun, ini pukul 1 pagi.
Aku harap besok pagi mataku tak terlalu perih dan rinduku sudah terlalu letih.
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Selasa, 25 Oktober 2011

Sing It Out Loud. About Us. 2

As the days passed by, the girls stood beside him, every day. She lived the relationship well, as she loved him more each days. Until a message came.
"Our relationship seems so flat"

And getting that message, the girl really didn't have any idea to fix it.
Beside crying.
She knew that crying wouldn't solve even a little thing, but it was all she wanted to do. Stupid.

The next day was harder for her. She should accepted the truth that the boy was the one that got away. He was gone, leaving her. Because the relationship seemed so flat.

And like it wasn't enough, as she arrived at home, she got a news.
He was already in a relationship with other girl.
He was gone, leaving her. Because he got a new one.

And the playlist broke her heart for more. She shouted her feeling after the lyrics.

"Does she watch your favorite movie? // I don't know!
Does she hold you when you cry // Oh it was me who always did that.
Does she let you tell her all your favorite parts when you've seen it a million times? // Uh!
Does she sings to all your music, // I guess she doesn't hear Alesana...
When you dance to purple rain, // WHAT IS PURPLE RAIN???!!!
Does she do all these things, like I used to?" // Maybe she doesn't do that. Isn't like my way.

Maybe his new girlfriend didn't do what she used to do. But his new girlfriend did her things in her way better than what she did. Sad.
"I was a sucker for love. Feeling cheated. And you were on my mind."
It was almost her birthday, but everything seemed so wrong.

And after cried in her birthday, he stood there in front of her with his new (fake) girlfriend and brought a cake, said
"IT'S ALL A DRAMA. I'm all yours".

And that day she promised she never wanted to feel anything about losing him.

*
He was always be there. His shadow fulfilled the mirror on his ride.
And those smiling eyes looked very friendly, very cheerful, and dazzling.
And she really loved to see the way they blinked.

And sometimes, there would be a time when the eyes seemed so cold, and she couldn't see anything warm from the mirror. The time they fought, and some problems took control of them.
They moved, they grew, not only by the happiness, but the worst part, and the sorrows. They lived by emotions, however, but they seemly needed to stick up together.

"It's not always rainbows and butterfly,
It's compromise that moves us along"

And it would help them to understand.

"I know where you hide, alone at your car,
Know all the things that made you who you are,
I know that goodbyes mean nothing at all,
come back and beg me to catch her every time she falls..."

*
The days run. And it was impossible for the girl to not feeling sad. The exams were about to come, and the boy got busier. And in months, the boy would be ready to dumped his uniform and went to college. And beside all the business that should be done, there was so many time to be together. And she - once again had no idea about how she could be in love with him this much.

"I know your face,
Your eyes,
Your lips,
Your taste,
I love the way you know
Just what to say..."

And like a calm-downing savior, every time she felt so much disturbed by the upcoming graduation time, she'd remember what he has told her:

"Take it easy baby, we can make it right,
Girl you know my love is always on your side,
Rest your eyes tonight,
You know that my love,
Is on your side"

*
After all the things they shared, after the memories they made...
They sat down in silence. The radio was turned on. And that evening, the songs seemed so melancholic until the girl felt very sensitive and seemed-like-bubble gum. They kept in silence until the song was played.

"If you just realize what I just realized,
that we've been perfect for each other,
and we'd never find another.
Just realized what I just realized,
we'd never have to wonder,
if we missed out on each other now"

The girl blushed and smile. She looked at her man deeply, ashamed.

Let's make this last, she whispered in her heart.

Sing It Out Loud. About Us. 1

On one lonely night, a girl sat in front of her computer, listening to the songs she used to hear.
"And I wish that you could be the one I'll die with,
and I pray that you're the one I'll build my home with,
I hope I love you all my life"

That's Daniel Beddingfield's If You're not the One. And the girl couldn't stop herself for doing stupid thing - imagining herself finding a man whom she'd sing the song. But where was the man? She still searched any. And then she went sleep. Before she reached her dreamland, her phone vibrated and woke her up. A message... From? What?

The insane senior that asked her for a ride to go home that afternoon.
And without her willing, her fingers typed words to reply.

*
The girl was fucked off. Thousand problems were clouding her. She broke everything up. Her relationship, her friendship, all shattered. She needed to fix everything, as soon.
Cheering herself, she went to somewhere new, learned something new. And when she started it all, a message came, from the one that ever asked her a ride. She just replied, and she had no idea that those replies would get her into a complex condition, as soon.

*
She couldn't lie. She wasn't a good liar. She screwed everything for more, but she just realized:
"Why do I keep running from the truth?
All I ever think about is you,
You got me hypnotized, so mesmerized,
And I just got to know..."

*
She got a Love Drunk.
Really drunken by love. From A to Z, from head to toe. The one asked her for ride -- he really made her accidentally in love. And now, he stood beside her. They faced a pouring rain, and the sky seemed so gray.
"So when will we go home?"
"I have no idea, but the rain's heavy. Ah, really I have to meet my friend, I have promised her"
"But the rain... You should tell her. We'll be so wet if we go home now"

So the girl told her friend what happened and the boy tried to catch her conversation.
Believe it or not, it was kinda make her heart jumped out from her chest.

She disconnected her call, and stood beside him. He smiled. Enough to make her dead of a stroke.
"Look at the sky. It's almost white there. The rain will take a long time"

She didn't answer anything. Not because she didn't wanted to, it was because of his smile, killing her softly. He blinked and said,
"Hey, do you love me?"

And the silence started for more, and ended.
"Why do you ask it?"
"Just want to know, do you love me?"

Silence started, and ended.
"Yes, I do"
"So, you want to be my girlfriend?"
"If I say 'yes'?"
"Then, I thank God"
"What if I say 'no'?"
"Then I'll jump"

Laugh.
"Oh please, no. Yes, yes..."
"Yes what?"
"Yes, I want to be yours."

The lightning couldn't stop anything, they were drunken. Totally drunk. He smiled again, and that time the girl thought she'd die because of that smile - and how such an heavenly way to die it was.

Thunders yelled around. But, the one who stood beside her was the greatest thunder of all.

"Your eyes are the brightest of all the colors,

I don't wanna ever love another,
You'll always be my thunder,
So bring on the rain,
And bring on the thunder"

*