Desire

A lover knows only humility

He has no choice

He steals into your alley at night

He has no choice

He longs to kiss every lock of your hair

Don't fret

He has no choice

In his frenzied love for you

He tries to break the chains of his imprisonment

He has no choice

A lover asks his beloved, 

"Do you love yourself more than you love me?"

Beloved replies, "I've died to myself, and I live for you... I've disappeared from myself and my attributes... I am present only for you."

I've forgotten all my learnings

But from knowing you, I have become a scholar

I have lost all my strength

but from your power, I am able.

I love myself. I love you. I love you. I love myself...

I am your lover

Come to my side

I will open the gate to your love

Come settle with me

Let us be neighbors with the stars

You have been hiding so long

Aimlessly drifting

In the sea of my love

Even so, you have always been connected to me

Concealed. Revealed. In the known. In the unmanifest

I am life itself.

You have been a prisoner of a little pond

I am the ocean

And its turbulent flood

Come merge with me

Leave this world of ignorance

Be with me

I will open the gate to your love

I desire you more than food or drink

My body, my senses, my mind

Hungered for your taste

I can sense your presence in my heart

Although you belong to all the world

I wait with silent passion

For one gesture. Once glance. From you.

The Early Bird...

This is very early in the year... so let's talk about being early (thanks, G., for the inspiration)...

"The early bird gets the worm."

Why do people believe this? In Jakarta, maybe you would be able to avoid hellish traffic if you leave home early (like 5 AM). Maybe this comes from the time of our ancestors, where people's occupation was mainly working the rice paddy and farming. Their whole business would be in complete chaos if they, say, start working only at 9 AM.

"The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese."

Because the first mouse gets killed by the trap and is now resting in peace. This holds true in the mice community. I don't know what the analogy is in humankind. You watch your colleague fail miserably in a project, then you take over, and now you know what she did wrong, you avoid the mistakes, and you eventually succeed, you make a big fuss out of it and get promoted? I don't know. Maybe.

"The early worm gets eaten by the early bird, so don't come out early."

This is posted on the wall in the worm community. They're not stupid.

"Where the hell are all the worms?!!"

This is eventually posted on the wall, in the bird community.