Dari Hati

dalam rindu yang tak pernah pulang

22.31

 June 19, 2025

Sudah lama aku berhasil pura-pura berdamai— seolah lupa, seolah sembuh, padahal aku simpan rindu yang amat sangat. Bahkan sekarang— rindunya menetap dan diam-diam tumbuh— menyesap pelan dan berdetak dengan lirih.

Aku masih berharap aku punya pelukmu, menggenggamku erat— menjadi jangkar di sisa-sisa hariku yang kian berat dan penuh keluh, dalam senja yang kian pucat, dalam waktu aku sering bingung harus berlabuh di mana. 

Akhir-akhir ini, aku seperti hampir remuk—- atau malah sudah— perlahan repas, retak.

Bagaimana rupaku dari atas sana? Sudahkah aku tampak lebur, seperti abu yang segan terbawa pergi? 

Aku bahkan rasanya tak kuasa untuk terisak.

Ternyata sulit, tidak semakin mudah, bahwa kehilanganmu tetap akan sulit. Aku masih saja terjatuh, dalam kenang yang tak tahu diri pulang.

Malam ini, langit redup. Maukah kau datang, semai sedikit asa di pelataran dadaku yang lengang. Panggil namaku—- dengan lembut, dengan irama indah yang ku suka seperti biasanya, seperti doa yang diam-diam kau pernah panjatkan. Ucap sedikit pujian— bahwa aku hebat walaupun hidup tanpamu berat.

Sebelum sunup datang, kalau peluk terasa berlebihan, temui saja aku dari kejauhan, biar aku bisa memandangmu walau jauh, biar aku tak semakin jatuh— semakin dalam.

Andai semesta berbelas kasih, aku titip rinduku sehelai saja, agar terbawa sayap angin— agar Tuhan sampaikan pesanku padamu…

“Aku masih terhempas dalam dinginnya rindu, masih sama seperti bertahun-tahun lalu.”

Diary

00.34

 July 18, 2024

Have you ever been in the lowest possible place you could be? That’s where I find myself now. It’s so frustrating that I can’t even muster the strength to peek at what lies outside. Everything around me is in disarray, a chaotic mess that mirrors the turmoil within me. I keep questioning if I will be able to rise above these setbacks. I feel so lost, almost hopeless.


I am scared. I am haunted, by all the dreams I once held so dear, dreams that now seem like so distant, taunting whispers. The confidence I used to carry with me has vanished, leaving a hollow shell in its place. Where can I find it again? How can I dream again, find the courage to start anew?


It feels like the beginning is out of reach. 

To dream ever again, to start a new beginning… It seems impossible, but I have to believe that somewhere within me lies the strength to try.

Diary

01.09

May 8, 2024


Rangka embun yang kokoh-pun tak mampu bersanding dengan sunup. Pasti lekang, hilang, dan meregang pada akhirnya. Apalagi hati yang berasal dari remah-remah hampa dan air mata, sudah pasti pecah.

Hampir tiba musim panas tahun ini, tapi canda-mu di musim gugur bertahun-tahun lalu masih erat bersemi di memori-ku, aku hampir merasa bahwa kau tak pernah benar-benar pergi dan jauh.

Kau yang telah jauh, jika sempat bertandang di sela-sela asterik akhir-akhir ini, lihatkan? Aku baik-baik saja, tapi hanya rindu. Hati ku sedikit repas tapi aku akan tetap keras. Bilamana sesekali ada yang serupa dengan air mata, itu hanya embun, karena akhir-akhir ini malam terasa lebih dingin dari seharusnya. 

Apabila kau benar-benar bisa singgah, walau tak lama, bolehkah aku minta dekap-mu yang hangat? Atau genggam saja tanganku lagi seperti dulu? Jika itu berlebihan, biarkan aku lihat wajahmu saja dari kejauhan. Boleh? Aku rindu menggebu-gebu…

Aku sedang berjibaku dengan hidupku, kini aku sibuk, terkadang masih sulit terpejam saat malam. Bolehkah aku berandai? Jika mungkin kau masih di sini, akankah aku merasa selelah ini? Setidaknya mungkin aku masih punya teman kencan untuk secangkir kopi di hari liburku?

Kalau kau bisa mendengarku, datanglah sesekali ke mimpiku. Ajak aku bercerita, dengarkan keluh kesahku, dan jika tidak terlalu sulit, aku mau pelukan-mu satu kali saja…

“…Peluk aku, sebentar saja

Tak perlu berkata-kata, lari dan raup aku yang hampir lebur…”



Diary

16.49

October 19, 2023

The night remained silent, muted echoes of how and where you walked away, leaving me in tormenting riddles of why? 

“Never been I felt loved as how I always feel when you are around.” His voice sounds very collected, now sounds like shards of a broken promise. Then why did you leave? If only I knew it was your parting words.

We parted ways, as how on how every date we did. He walked me to the last intersection, I turned around because I knew I would miss his smiling eyes. He stood still until I took the last turn before reaching home, and that was the last time.

God took him too fast, before I could even learn to love him wholly, leaving me drowning in longing for too much now. 
Roses were blooming on your resting place, dear.
While my heart shatters into irreparable pieces

Don’t walk away, I am falling down.

If only I could beg for god to let me, only one day more to hold you, for the last time. 
If only I could love you enough, then.
If only… 



Diary

22.10

December 18, 2021

 

For the everlasting restless heart of mine...

Life is supposed to be thrilling..

for me to carry on ?

 

After the fights, of the highs-and-downs,

then comes another rains and storms...

yet, i haven't found what universe wants to show me

roads seems boundless

and i have often become careless

 

tears and drips--

despairs and agonies--

i have grown exasperated..

 

i, once, devised--

what if--

i had given in?

what if--

i decided to runaway, then?

 

would it be any better?

 

though--

i have-- too many times-- encountered uncertainties.

Diary

Without You

21.53

December 15, 2017

Days had passed, through the loneliness on the air.

Times had much gone, through the endless calling.

Because without you, I would be always waiting.

Because without you, I believe you'd come, one day.

There was a day, when I hope I would give up on you, because giving up means I would turning my way finding better direction. But my heart seems too steadfast that I can't even replace the rotten part of the memories we had and made it damn torturing. I have learned that there was no one could be you, because even if I am without you, your every shadow still remains, apparently, that I still couldn't believe that you had gone for years.

Good for you.

Not good for me. 

I was wrong.

I was wrong that I let my self to bump into you when in the end nothing would remain except the longing you forced me to swallow. I have been lost, walking too far to find you.

I want you to pay!
for the time being.
I have been looking for you.
I have lost in myriads of tears.

  

Diary

The 35 days - Once in a life

00.48

September 24, 2017



I am guessing of how they would perceive the world from there.
the world that appeared lost for me, the first time I got in.
kilometers away from world's rush.

I wasn't ready to let go off my comfort zone living between amenities. I was laying my self with thousands barriers, not willing to hail. And now it was an enchanted memory I want to brag.

People are full of smiles - and I was forced to be so.
People are accepting sincerely - and it was hard to let it go.


With love
Dusun Cinanas, Desa Cinanas
Kecamatan Bantarkawung, Brebes


Diary

Across My Seat, That Afternoon...

00.28

September 7, 2017

You were offering a smile for me to heal my longing, for me to remember when you were nowhere to reach, because I refuse to trace your steps, because I once again let you go without chains.

Our argues, times ago, were a breaking for me.
Our distances, how we used to be, were a worry for me.

What surprised me was, we weren't awkward to sit together, after all these...
What excited me was, we were all well to talk about things we like...
After all changes, you do, i do, and so does the world.

I examined your eyes, nose, and lips...
as mesmerizing as they were.
I relished your voice...
as lovable as it was.

As the sun set.
We parted, once again.

Waving hands, good-bye greetings, and smile are addiction.
addiction to wait the next time we promise. 


Dari Hati

21.46

September 19, 2016

Untuk hidupnya harapan...

Salahkan resah, untuk waktu yang hanyut bersama keraguan. Aku ingin salahkan gelisah, untuk penat yang membuatku susah menghela nafas. Tapi, harus aku salahkan siapa ketika arah peraduan matahari justru memimpin langkahku pada-mu yang bukan hanya kiasan. 

Tuhan sampaikan kabar indah ini, mungkin telah lama juga Tuhan tuliskan titah ini bahwa pada saat itu aku akan akhirnya memutus sejenak kerinduan, walau kini sudah mulai meracau lagi rindu itu...

Hanya bertukar pandangan-pun melegakan rasanya...
Hanya beriringan senyum-pun luar biasa bahagianya...

Yang selalu berada membentang bersama mega, walau jauh, di lipatan langit entah bagian mana.
Yang masih enggan untuk tak berada jauh...

Tiupan rinduku membeku dan menjadi embun di sela jendela kamarmu...
Di satu embun di antara rindu-rindu yang bertebaran, satu itu milikmu...
Satu itu milikmu, dan di sinilah bagian hulu dari mana rindu itu mengalir. 
Semoga tak sia-sia dan sekedar hanyut bermuara di laut yang tak terhingga...


Diary

Unexpected Encounter

00.40

My heart keeps beating like crazy bringing me into an immense of anxiety. It doesn't feel alright these recent days. Something was stuck inside my gorge like a clump that resist my breathing and it feels hard to inflate my chest. I am not well. I know I am not fine.

What has brought me to this state? What kind of past has led me to this way where now I often found my self off, deflated, and down.

...

I made up this story...

Once, I roamed the streets looking for a release. Just walking. I had no exact direction of where to bring my feet to. I was merely walking aimlessly under the calming cold which comforted me inside my sweater.

My hands were nearly frozen. They almost turned into ice block from the sharp cold. It wasn't a comforting cold but a freezing one. Indeed, my heart felt a bit at ease. I heard cold has this nice hypoesthesia upshot where it makes your nerves ending felt like numb. Hmm... at least I could feel my heart felt like numb to cover up the heartache. In turn, my body got stiff.

I ended my wandering on a wood bench watching every shadow passed through my sight until I sensed a warm beside me, only few inches away. I took a slight glance just to capture a pair of smiling eyes were staring back at me, too short glance to see the color of his eyes.

I announced my uncompromising way of socializing by staying quiet and refusing his offer to converse. I felt like I hadn't recorded his voice inside my parietal lobes. His voice traveled and poked my Wernicke's area to process his low-deep voice. I resisted it so much and I lost. I eventually turned my head to take a look of how he was. The atmosphere suffocated me so much. It was an awkward bump with stranger who seemed friendly and tried to befriend me.

His eyes radiated warmth filling up my vacant heart. Seems like competing with the blood running through the veins. No wonder, I felt a bit breathless, a little hypoxia? He blocked the bloods to enter my heart and occupied its every chamber with his charms. This should be kidding. It was probably just because my sympathetic nerves were triggered and my heart started beating too fast before my bloods able to get in. If it was my sympathetic nerves, why my face felt like burning and turned into grilled crab?

...

I was so imperceptible but that brief encounter had somewhat gave me a new feeling. Nothing could describe.

I am trying to open up little by little now following my curiosities.

I ended falling in love in thing I never thought before. It even goes further to every space inside my cell, now.

But, how does it feel to be rejected by thing you have put your heart into it?

Hurt.

No kidding.

Hurt.

It brought me to a realization that actually I am still lacking too much.

I might need a defibrillator now to keep my heart from jerking every single time I feel excited to learn it.


Diary

Falling

16.33



Once I thought, it would be nice to just stay inside my comfortable zone, inside a warm embrace of mommy's arms, and keep my self away from the stormy seas. But that only works for those who never think of any headway, for people who never dreamed of becoming mature and holding the word inside their hand. But I have come to a realization that I need to improve! I must advance!

Everyone at one of thousands points throughout lives would fail, would fall, would lose, would suck at thing, would regret, would embarrass their selves. And today, it's my turn to fall and land on the lowest profile of this world, too low from the hopes that I have been trying to revive. Falling is painful. I got wounds. I got scars inside heart that is inflexible to mend. This, maybe (I am exaggerating) is one of the toughest way I need to hike up back to be on top, my favorite place.

Let me tell you, how it happened. How finally I need to experience the agonizing tumble in the beginning of this year, 2016.

I made a really hard decision of whether i should challenge, at least to see how my self is doing this far. I didn't do anything yet, until it was minus one day from the closing date. I didn't fill in the application form, hadn't thought of making a motivation letter, and printed my GPA script, not until it was minus one day from the deadline. Such a deadliner!

I was just going to bury my gut under the fears and doubts when my heart said it would be a lost to miss such a chance to challenge and prove myself. Thus, I finally apply with nothing to wish rather than a precious experience of competing, without ambition, without obsession. I tell you, I looked like only gambling with luck at first.

It passed just like that, I even forgot that I applied because there were too much things occupied me such as nonsense midnight crying until skipping classes reasoning I was too fed up by those lectures I could read on my own. Honestly, this semester was just like a playground, I idled at the library, sleeping, playing candy crush, reading novels or news about Afghanistan's Taliban to Pakistan's homemade drone.

...

Days kept ticking and I didn't know where I finally found a commitment to mingle. I was suddenly being entangled with thing called anatomy. The damn difficult thing is now occupying my every chamber of my heart, even in every depression and elevation of my body's organs, even now after being completely rejected.

How did I get rejected?

Firstly, I am a stupid nut. There's no way they would accept such a big empty head to be there.

Secondly, I am a stupid nut who always have a hard time bustling with structures, places, and weird names.

Thirdly, I am a stupid nut who isn't smart.

Fourthly, I am stupid.

Fifthly, I am stupid.

I am stupid, I know right.

The whole reason might be I am a stupid damn big head with no talents or something to offer.

But I swear, I love it so much to learn about anatomy and be in daze, even though it's not easy to keep my eyes immersed onto the big thick atlas. Two minutes and I would get bored, I closed it. And I re-opened it, two minutes later I got bored and flew away finding a release, then back to stare, two minutes later I would feel like I am dying from those matters, then I pretend to die but then waking up again just to stare and tried to visualize every pictures onto my body. Ha-ha. I have those structures called bones, muscles, tendons, ligaments, arteries, veins, everything inside me.

Even if it's not my favorite thing, it always gets me the feel in inevitable way. As long as I am happy, how hard it it, I would still rush for it, even if I didn't get to sleep and fight off my melatonin to stay up. Easy babe...

And I have been completely rejected. OUT!

Bitter-smile.

But...

Oprah Winfrey said,

"You will at some point fall and when you do, remember this! There's no such thing as failure. Failure is just life trying to move us in another direction."

Michael Jordan was cut from his high-school basketball team. Does he look like he's bad at basketball? No.

Walt Disney was fired from his first job because people said he was lack of imagination. The beatles was rejected from the recording studios because people said they had no future in show business.

It's okay to fall. Fall forward and stand up!

I still have thousand more way than enough to understand, outside there, with every sincere wish to be better. I will still be able to learn. I will.



Diary

Turning 19!

05.24

I am aging! Getting old, being almost a complete adult, and turning 19. What to do, even though I have been hating birthday so much for changing me from baby to toddler, toddler to kid, kid to teenager, and now I am almost an adult, I am still so grateful for every blessing God has poured me.

19 years aren’t short and simple trip. There are much highs and lows, bunches ups and downs, myriads joys and sorrows, suffers and satisfactions. All which made me the way I am now. 

The thing I have learned so far from experiences of watching others, surroundings, trials-and-errors, I am gonna conclude so far: passion can wait, but curiosities never!

Why?

It’s hard to alter the point of view that everyone said you have to live your passion. From the saying passion makes everything easier, joyful, or many those positive thoughts. But for me, my passion can wait and I keep convincing my self that I never threw that out of my life, even if I am not living on it now.

Passion is something you don’t need appointment to do. You don’t need certain circumstances to live it. Besides, curiosities can kill me for not finding the answer. Right here, right now, If I have to jump from the plane just to feel how is it feeling so thrilled, maybe I would do it without fear. Curiosities make me fearless, sometimes thoughtless.

I see people are living their passion, saying they are happy with it. But they sometimes stop before done with their business. Saying they have much more times than enough before deadline, and finally even if with their passion they still procrastinate.

People with curiosities never bothered to lose their time to sleep  just to find the answer. It could take them to the edge of the world to find the best answer that fit their logic. 

Curiosities never lost!

Ha-ha. Those were just some birthday preachers from this kiddo nut. No offense, no hard feeling. I am not trying to indoctrinate anyone or quip someone.



And some nice girls sent me this tasteful chocolate birthday cake!!!

Thank you guys for making me surprised by the delivery. Thank you for the loves, friendships, craziness, nags, and companions that make my college life much more easier and effortless from the joys and laughs. Thank you for accepting this egoist-kiddo nut to be one of worms in your heart. 

Love you so much to the moon and back, from now and then.

Hey you, my cortisols yet endorphines donor!! @auliahusna14 and @silvanaoktaviana :)
also for my lovely onnie for sending me such a sweet birthday greeting along with prayers. I am so moved and feeling blessed. Thank you for always being nice. I love you too so so so much :) @dencylist

And for all people who always treat me like precious, may god always watch and guard you on every path.