Masa

terkadang kita rasa sukar melentur
yang rencam menganak kabur geliga
tiada daya sendiri mengatur
dengan gerabak masa diukur

dalam sela mandiri kita
serasa bersedia diganti aksara
di hujung kasur
reda meninggal kekacang melur
perlak seisinya
Kita rasa telah bersedia

Yang kita perlukan cuma masa

Gharib

Hidup selamanya aneh
Dari buaian hingga murahiq mendidih
Sepanjang itulah kita tersisih
Melalui jalan nan tiada berselisih

Kita fikir usia semi akan lebih manis
Kita harap segala sengal parut akan hapus
Tapi Tuhan punyai rencana lebih halus
Dan kita tergantung pada benang halus

Kita cuba lebih bertahan meragas
Karna telah kita sedar seumpama unggas
Dan seperti camar meneroka lautan luas
Begitulah hidup masing-masing punya tugas

Seperti garisan selari di atas landasan
Ada yang takdirnya cuma berpapasan
Tiada daya menumpang dahan
Tuhan tetapkan terus berjalan

Dan semua rengsa telah menyemat rasa
Masa sekarang perkataan sudah tak punya harga
Kata-kata dan gula sudah berpadu makna
Hanya manis buat seketika cuma
Hari kemudian meracun segala

Pra-pertulangan 5/11/19

Zunnun

Titis syurga
Dan gemawan mega
Musafir renta
Dan gemulah cinta

Dan segaris lekuk
Mengambus cambuk

Dia senyum
..bangun
..

Kasa flavin

Yang jelaga
Nan terluka si jelita

Hidup tak punya banyak pilihan
Redah dan persetan
Rebah atau bertahan
Berpaksi rukun iman

Iya memang kau seorang
Hidup diramu malang
Hatimu seorang
Dikelek ditatang

Di balik titisan merah
si kecil kesakitan,
awal dinihari,
lewat tengahhari,
Dan rengsa badan
dilatu kesibukan
basuhan dan basahan;
Rahman menyorong ubatan

Perlahan, cekatan
Dengan cepu tangan
diupar hijauan kapal terbang
pedih dialukan;

Selamat datang luka

(Sekian lama aku dan luka
Tidak melerai jabat tangan)

Pulang

Tuhan memanggil kita pulang
Dengan membentang jalan

Jalan yang tidak diambil orang
Tuhan mahu kita tinggalkan
Semua kesedapan dan selesa tilam
Meresik suara ayah bonda
Dan air tangan penghilang duka

Serahkan kembali gebu dan harum
kucing, dan aroma nyaman
bunga-bungaan, dan harum
tanah, dan sejuk persih
semilir hutan.

Tuhan mahu sepenuh perhatian
Sesungguh pengharapan
Dari hamba

Hamba pulang
dengan perlahan
Hati tertahan

Hamba pulang.

Dengan Nama Tuhan.

Poetry

I've been reading too much literature nowadays that sometimes it gets too hard to switch my brain back to "Medicine Mode".

But the reverse is true actually. Reading poetry and serious literature helps boost your brain function :)

This link is a great read about how reading classics, literature with unfamiliar words, and poetry, ignites sparks in your brain that would last longer than reading self help books.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/science-news/9797617/Shakespeare-and-Wordsworth-boost-the-brain-new-research-reveals.html

Quoting some of the text;

"The research also found that reading poetry, in particular, increases activity in the right hemisphere of the brain, an area concerned with “autobiographical memory”, helping the reader to reflect on and reappraise their own experiences in light of what they have read. The academics said this meant the classics were more useful than self-help books.

Philip Davis, an English professor who has worked on the study with the university’s magnetic resonance centre, will tell a conference this week: “Serious literature acts like a rocket-booster to the brain."

Let's read more seriously than ever! Probably my last moments of freedom and being able to read at my leisure before starting my job inshaAllah. 

fine line

“I got hurt by the closest people to me. People that I fully trusted. People that I let into my home”, he said

“Do you hate them?”, she asked

“No, cause that would mean they still matter to me”, he answered

“Well if you don’t love them, you must hate them”, she said

“That’s where you’re wrong. The opposite of love is not hate; the opposite of love is indifference”, he replied

Copied :)

They say love and commitment is a cocktail of oxytocin, dopamine, testosterone, and vasopressin. Let's see which one wins, and what new things will begin.