126 Tahun Setelah Aku

(Selamat Hari Kartini, 21 April 2005)

aku baru bebaskan perempuan
dari belenggu pria, budaya dan citra

126 tahun setelah aku
perempuan kembali mengikat kaki
dalam penjara yang diciptakan sendiri

konon, akulah yang menjadikan perempuan setara
konon, akulah yang membuat perempuan berharga
tapi apalah harga sebuah jiwa
jika tak bisa bahagiakan sesama
orang-orang dicinta
orang-orang mencinta
tak lagi mendengar
tak melihat
tak merasa

terpenjara dalam kerja
dari pagi sampai malam tiba
dan akulah yang dianggap penyebabnya

konon, karena aku pula
kini perempuan bisa membaca
sayang, itu membuat kami tersiksa
oleh citra perempuan sempurna, ala majalah dan media

konon, akulah inspirasi
agar perempuan bisa sekolah tinggi
lalu terbelenggu oleh cara pikir yang katanya maju
tak perlu siapa, untuk jadi bahagia

126 tahun setelah aku
perempuan belum bisa bebaskan diri

When The Stars Go Blue

(a nice song from The Corrs featuring Bono of U2)

Dancin' where the stars go blue
Dancin' where the evening fell
Dancin' in your wooden shoes
In a wedding gown

Dancin' out on 7th street
Dancin' through the underground
Dancin' little marionette
Are you happy now?

Where do you go when you're lonely
Where do you go when you're blue
Where do you go when you're lonely
I'll follow you
When the stars go blue, blue

Laughing with your pretty mouth
Laughing with your broken eyes
Laughing with your lover's tongue
In a lullaby

Where do you go when you're lonely
Where do you go when you're blue
Where do you go when you're lonely
I'll follow you
When the stars go blue, blue

Mahadewi (song by PADI)

Hamparan langit maha sempurna
Bertahta bintang - bintang angkasa
Namun satu bintang yang berpijar
Teruntai turun menyapa aku

Ada tutur kata terucap
Ada damai yang kurasakan
Bila sinarnya sentuh wajahku
Kepedihanku pun... terhapuskan

Alam rayapun semua tersenyum
Merunduk dan memuja hadirnya
Terpukau aku menatap wajahnya
Aku merasa mengenal dia...

Tapi ada entah dimana
Hanya hatiku mampu menjawabnya
Mahadewi resapkan nilainya
Pencarianku pun... usai sudah

Mahadewi resapkan nilainya
Mahadewi tercipta untukku

Mahadewi resapkan nilainya
Mahadewi tercipta untukku

Rain

First drop of rain has fallen
to the rocks and the dust

I can smell it, even from where I sit
By the closed window
on the third floor

First drop of rain has fallen
and disappear
without regret
but the trace
will remain
and another life is begin

Di..

I met her on a school
She walk with a bag of burden,
carried on a smile and whistle

She told me how to sing
I know I can't make proper tune
even today

But she told me how to sing
and dance under the misty dew
upon the lawn

With barefoot and sincere steps
With laughter to the fullest

She told me how to pray
that the best is already here
"It's not about having what you want
but wanting what you've already have"

Don't think
Feel
Don't hear
Understand
Don't watch
Read

She said with glittery eyes
and sky-blue smile

She took her bag, full with burden
She jumps toward the rainbow

I still can hear her whistle
and her singing
around a school yard

Her soothing voice
captured on the leaves
of a book

A book
about a schoolgirl
named Di

Sky

(unintentionally collaborative writing)

Sky is a mistery
Sky is high and unlimited
but he always face his beauty down to earth.
Sky never lies whenever he angry, sad, cry
even happy
and all of the world know that
Sky is eager to provide human needs
in activities and sleeptimes
Sky is beautiful in many ways you see him
Sky has a complexity in simplicity
and within Sky
I can always see God's inside

***

Sky is where dream was made
and stored to infinity

Once a man dare to go and reach
to the Sky he think he knew
Reach he did
with bare hand he try so hard

His little foot jump
stretched beyond imagination
with bare hand he try so hard

The Sky smile to the man and pray to God
God smile back and nod

Then the Sky let this man lay on his back
then pour him with all the dream He ever had
With dream of finding
with the dream of understanding
with the dream of free
with the dream of journey that never ends

The man wake up and look to the sky
It's bright and blue
It's dark and starry
It's grey and cloudy
But He always there to see

Sky is where dream was made
and stored to infinity