Discovery channel simply channels the escapism need in me… only for a little while, and then I’ll be left wanting more in real life. :p
I want to run like those cheetahs. I want to run so free, so fast, so on the edge of an African raw field. I want to feel the wind slapping my face so hard that I have to close my eyes. I want to feel the high grass bruises my body. I want to laugh so hard with the blood I got from something I love. I want to run like those cheetahs.
Or to fly like those eagles. I want to fly so high that the air is thin and it’s so hard to breathe. I want to see what it’s like from up there. I want to see the world, the big houses, the huge buildings, the large meadows, so small and insignificant. I want to laugh at the wonders that they see down there. I want to fly like those eagles.
Then I want to swim like those sharks. I want to swim so elegantly, dangerously. I want to be the chosen ones who get oxygen in deep water. I want to be sharp, to be speedy and have the smile that only sharks have. I want to smile to the idea of feeding whatever I want. I want to sense my prey, and smile. I want to swim like those sharks.
I want to be a wonder, a brainless fascination.
I want to feel what it’s like…
On the edge,
On the brink,
On no-bounds,
And that’s it.
Terpaku sekejap dalam sudut kamar…
Kertas berserakan, tumpukan buku-buku berantakan, puing-puing memori terbang. Seakan-akan semua ada di dalam otakku. Namun ini semua bekas tak tersentuh.
Ketika kau jalan dan bercerita, dan dengar apa kata mereka. Ketika kau mengerti betapa beratnya hidup ini, dimana waktu tetap berjalan dan kaki mereka tetap melangkah. Ketika kau berusaha keras untuk menggenggam kaki mereka — biarlah terseret, toh aku ikut juga. Ketika kau tahu ini waktu individualmu, dan kau lihat ke sekitar.
Wah, doanya. Doanya ramai sekali. Bila doa bisa kau genggam menjadi duit, sudah bisa masuk Forbes sekarang ini. Kata-kata indah doa itu melingkar disekitarmu, seperti kau sedang berdiri di dalam tabung yang dilapisi monitor doa. Terlihat pula wajah-wajah penuh harapan, yang dengan ikhlasnya berkata “kau pasti bisa”. Kiri-kanan mu, semua harapan do’a. Dan dengan pelannya, kiri-kanan bibirmu tertarik, memperlihatkan senyum yang biasa. Terlampau biasa.
Karena kau mengerti: Ini waktu individualmu.
Bila orang datang memberimu permen, berjuta-juta permen… Apalah gunanya kalau kau tidak makan permen?
Garis akhir sudah semakin dekat. Dan teringatlah cerita-cerita lampau, cerita-cerita berat, cerita-cerita maju ke depan.
Dan waktu tetap berjalan.
Ini waktu individualmu. Maka berdiri. Melangkah. Karena kau tahu kau bisa.
Will you... um... marry me?
No. What do you mean, 'Will you, um, marry me?' I haven't seen you in weeks! You don't look happy or excited about the prospect of our marriage! You're asking me to give up my - my freedom, my joie de vivre for an institution that fails as often as it succeeds? And why should I marry you anyway? I mean, why do you wanna marry me? Besides some bourgeois desire to fulfill an ideal that society embeds in us from an early age to promote a consumer capitalist agenda?
Oh! Oh, my God.
You should've got on your knee.
Just shut up! Here - I wanna marry you because you're the first person I wanna look at when I wake up in the morning, and the only one I wanna kiss goodnight. Because the first time that I saw these hands, I couldn't imagine not being able to hold them. But mainly, when you love someone as much as I love you, getting married is the only thing left to do. So, will you, um, marry me?
Definitely. Maybe.
-'Definitely, Maybe' (2008)
Ketika bibir ini terbuka
dan perkataan mengalir
Manusia, ini bukan air
namun menguap menjadi asap.
Hitam asap itu terbang
menutup mata hati yang mengantuk
Perkataanmu menjadi liar
busuk, termakan bangkai.
Tak kau duga akibatnya
banyak nurani terluka
Manusia, ini bukan kiasan
ucapan dapat memicu perang.
Ketika mulut mulai terbuka
dan cacing-cacing itu melata
merambat ke seluruh kota.
Pantaskah engkau menjadi makhluk paling sempurna?
Dan asap pun akan memudar
walau abunya tetap melekat
Manusia, ini bukan dendam
hanya ingatan akan Tuhan.
(This is a poem I made for my Creative Writing assignment. Enjoy!)

Let’s not do this. No, no. Yes, I’m in. Yes, you’re inside me. Yes, the sun is shining warmly above us, the wind caressing my belly and your butt. Yes, the roar of splashing waters exists not. There’s only my head I hear, loud. Unclear.
I am serious here.
I’m searching for fantastical stories to share, laughter to dare. What to call you, dearest Teddy Bear? Harry, Larry, Barry, Weary? Mark, Clark, Stark, Bark? George, with W or without, I’m out. I am the blackest white on this height. I am BLACK. I am WHITE. I am a mother, I am not. I am a WOMAN, with or without. Well, what the hell is not. Freedom lingers with various game, that we sound so different but we’re just the same. We don’t have valid extended guns in our hands.
I am dead serious, man.
Haha. You make ma laugh. What I am is a thing with no feeling. I heard the clock ticking, Tick tock tick tock. Your heart beating, like drums breathing. I hear the whisper in my ear and the flow of the breeze. I hear the growl of the wind, slapping you, and me. We are slapped, but we stay still. As still as the sun shining above. I am a mother, I am not. ‘I am a mother,’ my mother said. Am I my mother? Yes? No? Does not matter. Apology accepted, thank you. But this is too late.
Fucking fate.
Fucking compensate.
Fucking height.
And I fall on my back,
Flat.
Dead.
Cheers, mate
Ketika tangannya mengalur
Kemari, Nak. Kemari.
Kita terjang dunia ini.. Bersama
Sampai aku mati.
Maka kemari, Nak.
Genggam tangan ini..
Jangan kau lepas lagi.
Sampai di satu sisi,
Aku tersudut. Terdiam.
Ruangan ini besar, sebesar kapal pesiar. Kau bisa kemari, bermain bola, bermain seni, bermain api. Lihat besarnya ruangan ini, dan rasakan.
Rasakan betapa sesaknya nafas ini.
Aku ini siapa sih. Tak pantas aku kau buat macam ini. Aku ini bukan imajinasimu, ataupun kebohonganku. Aku penuh asap, aku sesak. Aku tersenyum, dan aku sesak. Kau ini lucu, bisa tulus seperti itu. Tapi kau harus tau.. Aku sebatas pelakon lalu.
Rasakan betapa sunyinya ruangan ini, dalam tingginya tumpukan benci, terhadap ketulusan yang tak akan pernah mati.
Maka telanlah ludahmu, dan bersihkan kotoran itu
karena waktu.. Waktu sedang berlari.
Dan genggam ketulusan itu,
selagi ada.
Mohonlah ampun,
(di dalam hati)
Wawoo! Masa tadi malem ada serangga masuk kamar akuuu! Aku semprot excessively pake baygon. Abis mati aku mejretin lagi dibawah kardus. Eww
Ah, payah kau. Binatang apa emangnya?
Seriously, kayaknya sih serangga yg mutant gitu wo. atasnya kyk kumbang, tapi panjang kyk ulat bulu. Nah, tapi yah kakinya kayak semut. Serem kan?! Gimana aku nggak panik!
Wow... Man, kalo wo digigit dia mungkin jadi Butter-girl, adiknya Spiderman.
HAH?!! Butter-girl?? Trus aku bisanya cuma nempelin coklat di roti doang gitu? not cool man.
Butter(fly)-girl lahh... parah kali kau!
... *terdiam karena terlalu keluar dari context*