Oktober 2009

guncang 2

takut keliru aku jika menafsirkan

guncangan yang kau sentilkan ke tubuh kami
menjalar dan kembali
berulang dan rupa-rupanya
tak dapat kami sangka
pun hitung percuma

manusia
cuma manusia...

ya, kami cuma manusia
(Thursday, October 1, 2009 at 11:35am)


Hujan

Ingin ku berlarian di tengah hujan
bukan tuk meratapi diri, kawan
aku ingin menantangnya
dan takkan menyerah
meski angin pun mendukungnya
aku juga tak menyangkal
dingin hujan dan angin memang
membuatku menggigil dan pusing,
tapi aku takkan kalah di peraduan ini

Kini mentarilah yang menantangku
untuk menggapai awan yang tinggi
dan lebih dalam lagi
mencium wangi daratan baru
mendengar nyanyian pulau baru
ya, aku takkan pernah ragu
tuk membentangkan mimpi lagi
sehingga kami bisa berbagi langit
dan melukis pelangi
(Thursday, October 8, 2009 at 8:43am)


Bayangan

Kenapa hujanmu tak kunjung reda,
dan terus kau bisikkan
di sela alirannya?
Padahal, beranikah kau yakinkanku
bahwa kenanganmu akan pelangi
kini bukan bayanganmu belaka?
(Tuesday, October 27, 2009 at 10:20pm)


Cerita Sahabatku

Aku ingin melihat sahabatku tertawa selalu
bersamamu aku kira itu akan terwujud
sebagaimana kau pun yakin akan sosoknya itu
bisa terus menghangatkan hatimu

tapi tiada cerita dan cerianya lagi untukku
sebagaimana rakusmu mengisap pancaran sahabatku
untuk menerangi semata jiwamu

tak apalah jika denting tawanya dan dentang gelakmu
tiada terputus
ku percayakan kepada cinta dan tanggung jawabmu
tapi yang ku lihat kini hanyalah pilu
(Tuesday, October 27, 2009 at 11:00pm)

Atheist and Agnostic

We have to be careful in judging others. Some people believe that atheists are amoral. Just because they don’t believe in God’s existence, they are underestimated as atypical. The fact is, universal norms and values do exist, meanwhile religion is not the only source to learn them. Even if atheists think God does not exist and religion is a human-made dogma to handle fears and desperations, they do care about kindness. Another “anomaly” is agnostic.

Agnostics are not as fierce as the atheists. They’re just apathetic about God’s existence, and religion as well. Probably, they never consider to think about these issues. But once again, it doesn’t make them awful persons. They are humans—we are humans. We already have the mind and heart to be good. It’s our nature.

Both atheist and agnostic are not abstruse, if you spare your time to look at this world from their perspectives. Don’t call them abnormal, because abnormality is relative. When we think that they are abnormal, that’s exactly what they think about us too.

As long as they do no harm to us, we have no reason to abhor them, much less to abolish them. It’s much better if we can live side-by-side with people who have different perspectives since it would broaden your insight as well.

(in this article, we refer to those who believe in God and religion)