̶ or maybe the feeling was never there

We never said ‘I love you’

Because saying the words might make the other flee and not touching each other’s souls would leave both heart in agony

We never said ‘I love you’

Because ‘love’ is a weak and lousy word to explain the feeling when the one who makes you weep is also the one whose arms hits close to home

We never said ‘I love you’

Because we found miscellaneous ways to not only say it, but mean it

We never said ‘I love you’

But we made other form of talking through poems and songs

We never said ‘I love you’

But we both knew

Asumsi

Ribuan kata terbuang percuma

Dari sunyi hingga kembali hampa

Apa gunanya menelan malu

Jika yang dua tak bisa jadi satu

Lalu orang bilang semua butuh waktu

“Namanya juga hati,

Perlahan nanti akan sembuh sendiri.”

Tapi tak ada yang mengerti

Selain yang pernah hidup

Di ruang antara kata yang tak diucap

Dan rasa yang diingin kembali

Raga dan Semesta

Kupejam mata satu detik

Tak sadar hati hilang satu detak

Kembali menuju waktu

Mengganti siang menjadi malam yang bisu

Entah bisu, atau memang sendu

Karena tubuh yang lumpuh

Sepuh mengejar banda

Dan abai memupuk cita

Favorite Place

Your free soul always roams

Yet your mind fixated

To the day you finally said ‘I’m home!’

So I pray that the street

Is not just a mere concrete

But a way

To a place where you keep your ‘someday’