Izinkan aku ......

Izinkan aku berdoa
bukan agar terhindar dari bahaya
melainkan agar aku tiada takut menghadapinya
Izinkan aku memohon
bukan agar penderitaanku hilang
melainkan agar hatiku teguh menghadapinya
Izinkan aku tidak mencari sekutu dalam perjuangan hidupku
melainkan memperoleh kekuatanku sendiri
Izinkan aku tidak memohon keselamatan dengan ketakutan dan kegelisahan
melainkan memiliki harapan dan
bersabar untuk memenangkan kebebasanku
Berkati aku
sehingga aku tidak menjadi pengecut
dengan merasakan kemurahan-Mu
dalam keberhasilanku semata
Tapi biarkan aku menemukan
genggaman tangan-Mu dalam kegagalanku

(translated from: Rabindranath Tagore)

In one important occassion of my life, beside a beautiful du'a, my (late) father read this piece of Tagore's. Thank you so much, Ayah.

**I'm still looking for the English version lolzz....

Salam Damai.
Kampanye Damai Pemilu Indonesia 2009.

H e a r t

Salam Damai.
Kampanye Damai Pemilu Indonesia 2009.

For Daughters and Sons

"Mengawal" bundaku pada setiap pertemuan rutinnya dengan sesama "Golden Girls" (lolzz) adalah bagian dari keseharianku saat ini. Hanya, gak pernah terbersit dipikiranku, bahwa kehadiranku yang sungguh biasa saja itu , bisa menimbulkan rasa "iri" dalam hati the other "Golden Girls".

One day, one of the Golden Girls whispers silently to my ears: " Gaia, we envied your mother. She's lucky to have you around. We have our chldren's car and driver to drive us, and also some amount of allowance... yet it would feel different if one time they would be willing to spare their time to accompany us.. not necessarily in the monthly gathering coz they have their own life".. she chocked back her tears...
" Once a year, that would make a difference..."

I just hold her hands.

Salam Damai.
Kampanye Damai Pemilu Indonesia 2009.

IF....

If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or, being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or, being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise;

If you can dream - and not make dreams your master;
If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with triumph and disaster
And treat those two imposters just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to broken,
And stoop and build 'em up with wornout tools;


If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breath a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on";

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with kings - nor lose the common touch;
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run -
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And - which is more - you'll be a Man my son!

Poem by Rudyard Kipling


(PS: My late Ayah (father) once read this for me when I was still a kid -- and gosh!!.. in English !!!.. lolzzz. I didnt understand it words by words back then, but Ayah did tell me the core: on being a "Man" --- arrghh..!! A "Woman" to be precise :D. I was glad I came accross this poem yesterday. Dear Ayah, this is for the memory of you. I'm still trying to be one, Ayah.. and will keep on trying)

Salam Damai.
Kampanye Damai Pemilu Indonesia 2009.