We are a Family

A hand touches my shoulder,

A greet comes from his lips,

Just to find out, how do I do?

A hand hugs me from my back,

A smile carves from her heart,

Just to make sure if I am okay.

A hand calms down my shaking arms,

A sight has said everything I need,

Just to believe me that everything is fine.

A hand holds my fingers,

A laugh cracks from her mouth,

Just to invite me to join the laughter.

Now I know,

That friendship is all about

To complete the incomplete,

To perfect the imperfect,

To color the differences.

We face it together.

We started the friendship,

And no one will ever end it.

I was afraid,

That I couldn’t fit in their hearts,

That they couldn’t accept me,

As whom I am wanted to be.

Though I had tracks of fear,

And disappointments,

But the dear moments and the love,

Are beyond my imagination.

If life parts us,

As farewell is lying in front of us,

Will you promise?

That we will always be a family?

And if one day,

I have to tell,

What a best friend means to me,

I will just write down our names.

(2007)

Farewell to Elizabeth

It takes too hard for me; 

Just to make sure, 

That I have someone, 

Whom I could call a friend.

I thought friendship is just a story, 

A scene that passed easily in my life; 

Not something that I need to remember.

But why I believe like its true, 

When I met you year ago.

Thing that never come to pass me, 

Yet it really happens.

Elizabeth, 

You’re a friend, you’re a sister.

You're the great one.

And I can't understand why

Your name crosses in my mind, 

Every time I need someone to lean on.

I know there will be farewell

But why it comes so hurt, 

When I catch that time runs faster, 

Closer and all I want it to deny it.

You are no here in my sweet 17th's,

And seeing me baptized in Thy name.

Moments and times I wish you are there, 

And indeed you're not, 

That’s what farewell means to me.

Elizabeth, 

These tears are my tears.

That I shed for your life.

The bright future in front of you, 

It’s all yours.

Elizabeth, 

My prayer walks with you, 

My hopes live with you, 

My heart will always be right here.

This is a confession, 

Deep from my heart, 

That you are my friend forever.

One day…

Let the fate meet us back, 

Like it had made us met year ago.

And you won't see my love for you has changed.

Elizabeth, I love you.

(January 2007)

Here We Are

In my country,

We are forever free,

Yet we're getting older,

Each year values as a pearl.

Faced with races,

Lived as racists,

Prayed for mercies,

Before breaking into pieces.

Years by years

Are carved in page by page,

Weren't reached by misery even fear,

But heroism and courage.

And now,

We are the dream of the nation,

Tied in a vow,

That we are the true generation.

As we have claimed to the world,

Races are gathered in a circle,

That never can be divided,

Into the tiniest piece,

This country will always be bonded

To a forever peace.

May we live in bloom,

Of peace and gaiety,

And freed from gloom,

Of cresses and sorrow.

Dear Lord, here we are.

(2007)