It’s your turn, baby
Who knows how Life will turn out
For now, it’s just us.
(With mad respect to Ty Dolla $ign)
#501 Tentang Lelah Jiwa
Izinkan aku
Merebah lelah jiwa
Dipersadamu
#497 On Ascending
I scratched my hands today
To see if I still bleed
Tried to wash it all away
This deeply-seated need
To love and so be loved
But you cannot reveal
The pain of all these years
You can never heal
What have I become
Your broken child
All I have to taste is
Your dark, tainted bile
And you could never have
My empire of love
I will leave you here, as
I ascend above.
(with apologies to Trent Reznor and Johnny Cash)
#485 On a Five-Star Day
Today was a five-star day
Like every other day
That I spend with you
Because I spent it with you
You and only you.
#449 Tentang Mengambal Dara Jelita
Ambal dara masyuk berahi
Liar mata cergas menjalar
Awas tuan alih perhati
Jangan kerna nafsu terbakar.
#447 Tentang Cinta Pandang Pertama
Selayang pandang
Hati tertawan; bisa
Meracun kalbu.
#438 Tentang Janji Remaja
Di bawah cahya rembulan cerah
Janji kasih terjalin mesranya
Jiwa jasad seluruh kau serah
Tanpa silu ikrar selamanya
Apa erti berjanji remaja
Benarkah tak terluntur dek masa?
#435 On Remembering Young Love
Eighteenth of April,
Twenty years ago: our hearts
Afire with young love!
#434 On My List of 100 Things to be Grateful For in My Life
A hundred ways I'm grateful for this Life
A hundred times I'm blessed by God above
Within the daily din of baying strife
I've armed my soul with Kindness and with Love
With pen and paper, in my solitude
I count my blessings with deep gratitude.
#417 On That Poor Child
I think about him, now, sometimes
That poor, lost, lonely, saddened child
Clinging onto those broken rhymes
His life uncertain, desperate, wild
But wild, too, were his little dreams
To seek Success, and through that, Love
And now he knows, beyond what seems
Love comes when he trusts Him, Above.