Ingin rasanya bisa menulis puisi yang bagus. Meski pernah sekali dapat juara harapan dalam lomba menulis puisi, tapi kreativitas berpuisi saya masih jauh dibandingkan kakak saya yang memang langganan juara menulis dan membaca puisi. Segi artistik penulisan saya masih terlalu logis, itu komentar kakak saya. Kurang imaginative.
Tapi hampir dua minggu lalu saya tergelitik untuk kembali menulis puisi. "The hills are alive with the sound of music..." Gambar dan gerak semarak tokoh-tokoh dalam Moulin Rouge dan susunan musiknya yang cerdik dan kreatif mengelitik telinga, memberi inspirasi baru untuk menulis... "So exciting, so delighting..." Meski hasilnya tak memiliki judul dan bukan pula puisi. Cuma tulisan biasa dan semoga tidak terlalu buruk..."It may be quite simple but now that it's done...I hope you don't mind...I hope you don't mind that I put down in words..." (Your Song, Elton John)
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"There was a boy....a very strange enchanted boy...They say he wandered very far, very far...over land and sea....A little shy and sad of eye...but very wise...was he..." Ini kali kedua saya menonton film ini dan alurnya mengungkit pikiran...pesannya seperti menguak lembaran-lembaran perjalanan hidup...
"I follow the night...Can't stand the light...When will I begin...to live again?" Mengikuti alur pencarian kebahagiaan hidup yang terkadang tidak teraba persimpangan dan ujungnya, "Who knows what tomorrow brings...In a world, few hearts survive...All I know is the way I feel...When it's real, I keep it alive..." Apakah jalannya akan mendaki atau menurun. "The road is long...There are mountains in your way...But we climb a step every day..."
Besar harapan bahwa pencarian kebahagiaan itu berujung pada bentuk yang utuh dan murni..."It's a little bit funny, this feeling inside....I'm not one of those who can easily hide...I don't have much money but if I did...I'd buy a big house where we both could live..." Meski realitas sering menggambar kebahagiaan itu dalam bentuk ada dan sederhana di antara campuran suka dan payah ..."If I was a sculptor, but then again, no...or a man who makes potions in a travelling show...I know it's not much but it's the best I can do...My gift is my song and this one's for you..."
Kebahagiaan hidup seperti apa? "And then one day...a magic day he passed my way...And while we spoke of many things...fools and kings...this he said to me...The greatest thing you'll ever learn...is just to love and be loved in return" Kebahagiaan yang bersambut, yang tak sekedar mengenal tapi saling belajar dan mengisi... "Suddenly the world seems such a perfect place...Suddenly it moves with such a perfect grace...Suddenly my life doesn't seem such a waste...It all revolves around you..." Kebahagiaan yang telah menghidupkan azasi, memberi nafas dan ruang baru.. "Love lifts us up where we belong...Where the eagles cry, on a mountain high...Love lifts us up where we belong...far from the world below...up where the clear winds blow" Meski benturan tanya masih menjadi mendung pembatas...
"One day I'll fly away...Leave all this to yesterday...Why live life from dream to dream and dread the day when dreaming ends?" Mungkin jalan terbaik adalah dengan tetap berbesar hati dan bersabar, meski maksud tetap dipupuk untuk melindungi tunas kebahagiaan yang sedang tumbuh... "Some hang on to used to be...Live their lives, looking behind...All we have is here and now...All our life, out there to find" Dan tetap berharap sang waktu berpihak pada kesempatan terbaik untuk menumbuhkan kebahagiaan itu dalam wujudnya yang utuh, nyata dan dewasa... Come what may... Come what may...
"And you can tell everybody this is your song...
It may be quite simple but now that it's done...
I hope you don't mind...I hope you don't mind that I put down in words...
How wonderful life is while you're in the world..."
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Lyrics (italic words) are taken from Nature Boy (NatKing Cole), One Day I'll Fly Away (Randy Crawford), Up Where We Belong (Joe Cocker & Jennifer Warnes), Come What May (Nicole Kidman & Ewan McGregor), Your Song (Elton John).
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