Greedy

Michael is the greatest thing that’s ever happened to me.

I know home doesn't have to be a place.

It doesn't have to be a building,

a patch of land,

or even a country.

Home can also simply be a person. And my husband became mine.

Flickered

Those are the same hands
that threw the door open,
led me into the greener parts of your heart.

But lately, the door won’t open.

First Timers

Our lives are a series of first times.

We encounter new things every day. I suppose that's what makes life difficult: we're expected to know everything when, in truth, most of the time, we don't know what we're doing or where we're supposed to go.

And perhaps that's what we do to our parents, too.

Aku juga ingin dirayakan

Aku juga ingin dirayakan

Semua halnya
Setiap sentinya

Meriah dengan kembang api
Pakai bunga warna-warni

Aku juga ingin dirayakan
Bukan sekadar kata hampa makna
Atau senyum yang terpaksa

Apakah berlebihan
Jika aku juga ingin dirayakan?

Stagnation

Lately, I’ve had a strange feeling, like I’m being quietly sidelined in a place where I thought I would grow.

It didn’t show up all at once. At first, it was just a passing thought, something easy to brush off as overthinking. But when a feeling lingers long enough, it starts asking to be acknowledged.