Listen

Sometimes you are tired of listening to friends who keep saying they are tired of walking down their life path.
Sometimes you are bored of listening to people who keep thinking they are the unluckiest ones on earth.
Sometimes you are just wondering what those people are talking about and you just say “uh-uh” at the end of every sentence they say.
Sometimes you are just smiling at the end of the table to confirm that they just want to be heard and not really care whether you are really listening or not.

That’s fine….
Life is about enjoying.
So, let’s enjoy the listening part.
Open the ears wide, and more than that HEART wide to suffice what those people are craving: to be listened, to be care.
Because they feel abandoned in their own life, in their own self…. Without realizing that they are feeling that way.

But, willingness doesn’t come easy. It sometimes gets dragged aside by weak body and heavy days…. So, forgive yourself for not listening to every whining and complaining….

Oh…. What a beautiful life! What a beautiful journey! I think I know why I am here.

If only I can tell them to listen to their own selves.

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Penang – January 21, 2015 – 4:46am

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MENDENGAR YANG TAK TERDENGAR TELINGA

MENDENGAR YANG TAK TERDENGAR TELINGA

Kalau kudengar lagi

Maka yang kudengar adalah yang tak terdengar.

Telingaku bukan telinga yang dulu lagi:

Yang kudengar adalah yang dulu tak dapat kudengar

Yang hanya bias ditangkap oleh makhluk berbulu yang tidur di pangkuanku…

Apakah yang kudengar sungguh ada?

Atau hanya ilusi yang menampar lamunan?

Juga mungkin angin yang terkesiap ranting pepohonan?

Haruskah kujalin cerita untuk menghibur diri?

Supaya hatiku tenang tanpa perubahan?

Rentang waktu seperti rentangan tali

Yang makin kentang terpancang,

Makin kempling suaranya…

Jadi waktuku sedang riuh…

Kubungkam waktu yang bergerak memutar ini.

Hmm…

Diam –

Bisu sesaat

Namun sesaat rasanya sejuta tahun… cahaya…

Terlalu cepat

Menembus realitas,

Mengakhiri keresahanku;

Terpaksa atau tidak

Kuterima suara-suara itu

Sebagai anugerah rumah laba-laba semesta raya.

Taruna, 6 November 2010 – 5:42 sore