The talking chair

In this room,
I know you before I meet
I know you by person before
I know you because you’re next
I know you as the continue

You don’t know the person before
So young,
So smart and diligent,
So much vision,
Seems that he can be a star at night,

You’re the star of future
You’re the dark of star
You’re the rain of desert
You’re the fire of jungle

You’re like a passenger
A passenger of boat
The boat so old and weak
You’re like a driver
A driver of boat
The boat so full of jerk

The water so swift
The streams can bring you everywhere
The flows can shake you
The stones can sink you

I wanna teach you swimming, so
You’re not sunk
I wanna teach you driving, so
You can bring it to not sunk

Once more,
You’re the next
As like as the prior
Hope,
You’re the next
Unlike the prior

Candra B. Santoso
Wednesday, November 16, 2011

for whom and for what

a thing in grey-brown and an official hat,
a color can be yellow mixed in few blue and white in a vest,
a whistle and familiar ride,
a thing or just a thing?

it just sit down and keep eye on,
it also stand up and keep eye on,
seems it can walks then it walks,
seems it can runs then it runs,

suddenly,
it’s not walk,
it runs in a hurry,
to chase a thing or something,

then he got it, the other thing,
already keep on eye it,
such a pity fool thing,
that is the victim,

questioning about it,
for whom it is?
for what it is?
how could that be?
is that the real thing? Or,
Is that the shadow of thing?

knowing words, that it’s serving,
knowing videos, that it’s helping,

is that all of thing? Or,
is that just friends of thing?
But,
it disgraced all of thing,

Candra B. Santoso
Monday, November 07, 2011

A Year-end Notes

There’s coming a voice,
“What’s meant by your doing?
Burning money for a night,
Tiring yourself for a moment,
It just an annual eve to welcome me,
So lavish for me they are you doing,”

Other voices parrying,
“A special reception for you,
That’s all human did for this eve,
Not to be tiring for you,
Not to be lavish for you, but
There’re peoples burning money for a night,
And also collect the coin as the scorching,
The fire in the sky is meaningful for all,”

“A better welcoming can be done,
Invocations or saying prayers preferred,
A reflection for the previous period,
A musing for planning to face the coming,
Meanwhile,
A luxurious heavens eve and spendthrift occasion,
Should be evaded and could be alleviated,”

“The circumstance include prayers,
Invocations for better life must be held,
Definitely deep down from our heart said that,
A reflection and plan for future has been arranged,
Unknowing the next happen, because
The plan just from us, the coming faced changing,
Wasteful for the heavens and the events are fittingness,
As a human being what they can do is not guiltiness,
Indeed man made wrong and for something wrong,”

“Wishes appeared, Prays worded,
New life coming, welcome it by smile, hospitality and hopes,
No one blamed and blaming for it,
The future completely portray so much choices and opportunities,
Keeps memories and faces expectations,”

Candra B. Santoso
Sunday, January 01, 2012