ALL ABOUT LOVE




I often laughed at my friends who said to be really in love with someone and often did the things that I consider so strange. They often shared to me their feelings of love and the longing to spend their life with the one to whom they loved the most. For me, it was the biggest joke that can be told to have fun in the moment of sharing.
It is true that I have been in love several times in my high school years but those were not a big deal for me. Those experiences of loving a girl were just the colors of life that can be erased easily. At a certain moment I really felt in love to one nice girl and the next time around my feeling of love was gone. Nothing really took my energy. I often wandered why several of my friends have to do some foolish things just because they deeply in love with someone. What does it mean to be deeply in love? How does it affects my life? Those were the questions I raised upon looking at my friends who began to change when they were really in love. As the time goes, I cease to ask those questions anymore.
The moment came....during the time when I did not bother anymore to ask questions about love.....slowly I am in the sphere where every energy directs toward someone to whom I feel connected, where the dominant image in my mind is hers, where every fantasy goes toward her, where the only thing that matters is her, it is always her and her everywhere....
In the beginning was just simple, heartbits were absent and she was just like the other girl, there is nothing that impressed me. Slowly I begin to be drawn into her space and she began to be the one that dominates my mind. Every move, every word, and every look she offered me adds special joy that no other girl is capable of giving birth to those sentiments in me.
She committed many mistakes, she did not fulfill the promise she made, she used to say I would do this for you but many times those were just her flattering words....I was aware of those bad things of her but I hardly let her go. I accept her always and always eventhough the negative things were piled up. She was the only thing that matters the most for me and she is so precious that she occupied all the space in my heart, in my mind and in my wholeself.
I had always the longing to live together with her to feel the beauty of being next to the one that I love the most, the one that fills up every thing I desire, everything that I want to see in a girl. Sometimes crazy behaviors I did. The protagonist of my dreams was always her. I wish she could be disappeared from me but I could not find any possible solution. She is already part of me.
Now she is gone from any possibility of staying together. She flies where she feels better and safe. She has her own journey with someone she loved the most. When I spent some moments with her I wanted to see her always happy. It has been also my wish that she finds her happiness. It is now the fact that her happiness lies somewhere else far from me. It is hard to let her go and to accept the fact that she is not meant to be with me. She is gone with the wind that carries her to her preferred place. I stay here pondering at what I have been through with her. I cherish the beautiful moments we have spent together, nodding my head to the foolishness I accomplished, wishing her all the best and hoping that I can come out from this chain of love that takes a lot of my energy.
I come to realize that love is not a game. It comes to you, penetrates into the deepest of your heart and it can change you. You cannot joke with love for love is something real that cannot be erased easily. It is there and it takes its own course.
Perhaps the most painful thing in loving is that you really love someone and that someone doesn't love the way you do. You love him/her deeply but he/she loves someone else. In loving, you always wants to see the person you love look happy. Often the one we love finds his/her happiness in someone else and the only thing that we can do is to let him/her go where his/her heart leads. Love is not selfish, love is letting him/her to be in the place where he is convinced of living it.
There she goes leaving me the footprints that can never be erased. I would call this love “Unfortunate love journey”, a journey of love that doesn't end in living together but letting each other go if he/she find her true love in someone else. It is not the separation that I cry for but it is the fact of meeting her I am upset of.
Unfortunate love,
Slowly fills the empty space in the heart
covers every single longing
Only to satisfy in the certain moment
Then carried away to its proper nest
Away, away....
Only the footprints unbrokenly planted.

MENANTI PENGAMPUNAN

(Punta Princessa, Cebu City, Philippines – Desember 2010)


Mataku menelaja ke seluruh arah

Menanti pengganti ilahi

Dia tak kunjung datang

Dosaku masih kutabung di dada


Jiwaku tak tenang

Menanti datangnya cahaya

Penerang di selah-selah gelap diri ini

Tuk kembali menuai kasih dengan hati yang bersih


Ya, telah lama kutertidur merapuh

Di atas tumpukan dosa buatan hasrat belaka

Tak tenang setiap saat melangkah ke depan

Jalanku terpudar dengan serakahku


Menanti pengampunan

Menit berlalu begitu pelan

Hati terus berdebar

Seakan tak tahan lagi menyimpan segala dosa


The Sun rays Through My Window

The darkness fades away
Through the windows of my lovely room
The sun rays illuminate so brightly
Oh, it is a lovely morning
The new day of stepping forward to new life
Thousand thoughts filled my mind
The beauty pouring out from this simple life
The sunshine comes to me
The mystery of creator's way
Hardly I comprehend
Only the wish and hope of this early day
"Let it be done to me according to your will"

MI CHIAMANO ILLEGALE

Mi chiamano illegale
Quando mi sono scappato dalla terra Africana senza un pezzo di carta da presentare
Mi chiamano illegale
Quando lavoravo sotto un tetto di morte senza un documento giusto
Mi chiamano illegale
Quando mi metto i piedi oltre la data consentita nella terra piena di miele

Ma....
Esiste un'uomo illegale?
Quando siamo nati tutti da una madre
Esiste un'uomo illegale?
Quando mi sono fatto esattamente come altri uomini
Con i sentimenti
Con i desideri
Con il corpo umano
Esiste un'uomo illegale?
Quando Dio ha creato tutto con amore

WHEN THERE IS FRIENDSHIP


When there is friendship
Nothing can be a hindrance:
Not the origin of your race
Not the color of your passport
Not the continents you're coming from
Not the richness you possess
Not the beauty of your face
Not the religion you hold on
Not the shape of your body
Not the difference that divides

When there is friendship
The smiling faces brightens your day
The tender touch to richarge your spirit
The loving words that warms your soul
The diversity of gifts is highly appreciated
When there is friendship...you're given the chance to be "you"

When there is friendship
We can be simply friends
a friend who cares in times of trouble
a friend who rejoices in great times
a friend who shows the right path
a friend who cracks jokes
a friend who is angry and upset if needed to
a friend who is simply present

When there is friendship ... everything is possible


TERTIDUR DALAM RERUNTUHAN


Hati ini sudah tak berkata lagi
Ajakan ilahi tak dihiraukan lagi
Serakah di malam yang tenang
Hasrat maut merasuki jiwa
Tak puas dia menatap keparat malam
Nafsu mengalir memanaskan badan
Tanpa kata dia merayap di malam yang gelap
Dia sedih, dia menjerit
Tapi beban hidup sulit dipikul
Dia pantang menyerah pada hambatan
Tapi rasa panas di dada membakar jiwa tak berdaya
Matanya menatap di segala arah
Tak tahu apa yang harus dibuat lagi
Dalam keheningan malam jiwanya hilang terbawa hasrat belaka

Dia sebenarnya bisa
Tuk bangkit mengumpulkan kembali keping-keping
yang kini tercecer tak teratur
Dia sebenarnya bisa
Meninggalkan cerita lama yang merusak keutuhannya
Dia sebenarnya bisa
Melupakan paras tersayang yang bermain mesrah dalam hayalannya
Dia sebenarnya bisa
Melicinkan hasrat akan permata cinta yang bersinar
Dia sebenarnya bisa
Mengisi waktu mengais kasih yang teralir di hati
Ya, dia sebenarnya bisa
Membuka lembaran baru di atas puing-puing yang berserakan

Di hari esok dia suka bermimpi indah
Bayangan akan senyuman yang akan memancar lagi di wajahnya
Kegembiraan akan tawa ria bersama sobat-sobatnya
Nuansa jiwa yang padat dengan kasih sayang
Tapi...kapankah hari esok akan tiba?
Ya, dia masih tertidur lelap
Dalam reruntuhan jiwa di malam yang gelap
Dia tertidur lelap
Dia mungkin akan sadar ketika jiwa tak ada lagi.

THE SPLENDOR IN THE SKY


I treasure the afternoon of September 10
In the rooftop of my new home I was sitting on the plastic chair
My eyes were drawn to different corners
To the luxurious houses, the well-asphalted roads, the trees...
Yes, everything was pleasing to my eyes

The time passes slowly
The sun is about to sleep
And suddenly.....
The splendor of its rays make a last show
The blue sky of Manila painted with red color

Oh how beautiful is the phenomenon of nature
How great is the one who created them
The white clouds no more
The blue sky is hidden
The red sight like a fire filled the sky
Yes, the wander of nature in September 10

In my silence I thank the creator
For the beauty he puts in the universe
For the beautiful panorama pleasing to my eyes
For the wonderful nature that shows its greatness
And in the deep of my heart a thousand hope
"The splendor of the creator may shine also in my life"

ADEGAN MALANG DI MUSIM PANAS


Adegan malang di musim panas
Ayah berdiri sedih menampung pilu
Uang sekolah anak bertumpuk tambah
Tak mampu lagi menanggung biaya sang anak

Dengan berat dia mendekat pada sang anak
Tetesan air mata jatuh di pipinya
Dia menggenggam tangan anaknya seraya berkata
"Anakku, maafkan ayah dan ibumu
Tak mampu lagi kami menyekolahkanmu"

Sang anak terdiam tak berdaya
mendengar ucapan ayah dan kepedihan ibunda
Tak ada kata yang dapat terucap
Hanya muka suram dan air mata penghibur di hari itu
Cita-citanya pudar terbakar keadaan malang

Wahai langit
Tengoklah hamba-hambamu ini
Biarkanlah rahmatmu menyelamatkan mereka
Kirimkanlah tangan-tangan yang rela memberi
Jangan biarkan kekurangan menjadi penghalang akan mimpi putranya.

Per Un Grande Prete


(A te grande pastore
Dedico queste parole
Come segno del mio ammirazione)

Hai dato tutto te stesso per tutti
La tua energia spessa per la causa santa
Richiamare l'anima alla patria eterna
Dove il Signore aspetta con amore

Sì, tutto di te è esaurito
A volte il tuo amore mal-interpretato
A volte le tue parole mal-intese
A volte la tua persona mal-vista

Ma tu resisti fino all'ultima goccia della tua energia
Perché il Signore che ti ama, ti spinge ad amare di più
di più, di più, di più...la tua donazione totale
Sì, tu vivi per al di là, tradotta nell'amore qua giù

I giorni passano così veloci
L'età cammina più in su
Nonostante tutto tu cerchi sempre di esser strumento del amore Suo
Chissà se il popolo ti ricorderà
Se no, secondo la tua convinzione, Dio memorizza tutto.

SENTUHAN CINTA DI MAKASAR




Akan kukenang
Saudariku yang dengan senang menyambutku
Pelukan sayang yg telah lama kudamba
Kata-kata indah yang menyejukkan
Ya...telah begitu lama kami tak bersama

Akan kukenang
Tuk pertama kali aku melihat si Yupi, Dei, Arca
Senyumannya yang begitu ramah
Walau tuk pertama, kekeluargaan sangat terasa

Akan kukenang
Kugendong Jessica yang baru saja datang ke dunia
Hadiah Tuhan tuk keluargaku tersayang
Yeah, tuk pertama kali aku dipanggil om

Akan ku kenang...
Pertemuan pertamaku dengan Dus
Dia tersenyum, hatiku terasa senang
Ya, segalanya akan teringat jelas di masa depan.