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9.8k · Nov 2018
Brother
Safira Azizah Nov 2018
my brother learned life
in a rough way,
monday bloomed
red on his cheek
while friday left
bluish bruises for him.

i don't know about his pride,
but i see light in his eyes
dims and fades.
said, he never cries,

but he always lies.

my brother learned life
in a hard way.
he now suffers
addiction,
in a room with his console
to consume, then waste his times
wins nothing —— loses everything.


my brother is on the brink of despair,
he loves to stand off the cliff
as i watch him slowly walks away
said, he would not tries
to jump off

but i'm afraid,
he always lies.
#depressed #anxious #social #human#bully
2.9k · Nov 2018
di ri ku • di ri mu
Safira Azizah Nov 2018
pengecut itu
hidup di sela huruf-huruf
yang diukir oleh jari mahirnya
sambil bersahut bunyi dengan si gadis
di medio sunyinya malam.

pengecut itu
dalam senyap ia merayap ke pucuk harapan
seorang gadis dengan
senyuman kecut.

sibuk sembari mabuk
si gadis membingkai peti mati
berbaring harapan si gadis
dorman tak tersemai
karena buaian sang pengecut perlahan menjadi
kata tanpa arti, janji tanpa bukti.

teruntuk:
sang pengecut yang pucat pelasi kala bertemu
namun terlampau berani di balik ruang semu
2.7k · Nov 2018
hides in plain sight
Safira Azizah Nov 2018
there are million of words
left unsaid inside this gut.
similar to every volcanoes,
there will be
                      time
for this gut(ter) to blow up,
burst of processed thoughts
that kept inside for yearlong.
whether you like it or not,
give a **** or not,
ain't no **** were given


'cause it's about the time.
2.2k · Dec 2018
Pressed flowers
Safira Azizah Dec 2018
are like some people,
they are victimized to death
within one's palm
they're taken down and thrown

they had power
but no more
human eyes show pity
for picking them,
but not humanity

pressed flowers are they
who sleep under the tents,
walking for decades,
searching for new hope
cause it's crumbled back home.
2.2k · Oct 2018
Cincin karat
Safira Azizah Oct 2018
katakanlah, aku celaka
tersandung ke dalam lumbung asmara.

                                    celaka kah aku
mengendap-endap di bawah rumah mu?

katakanlah, aku terkutuk
seorang yang tak diundang
tak semestinya duduk di ruang tamu.

                                 terkutuk kah aku
membubung asa di atas hampa?

                 sadarkah aku
        sedang menanti sekarat
           dan karamnya harap?

dan ku akui,
aku ini binatang keparat
--berharap dua cincin akan enyah jua dimakan karat.


sampai jumpa cinta masa muda,
aku akan menanti di ujung tua
menyesal, sembari menatap
harap dan nyata
mustahil bersua.

maafkan aku menunggu hingga renta,
tak lain karena dirimu di relungku, sintas.
based on a woman who waited in her whole life, to marry someone she loved dearly.
1.7k · Oct 2018
Flower Bouquet
Safira Azizah Oct 2018
i am a ****** ryhmist
for i arrange words in a bouquet
in hope that flower of syllables would bloom
to give you fresh-cut flowers scent or unsavory stench
but again, who cares?

they said
words are meaningless
and forgetable
so here i am
trying to make sense out of nonsense
saying nothing more than cries for help
1.5k · Dec 2018
my sort of Love
Safira Azizah Dec 2018
people say you die twice.
once, when you stop breathing
twice, when someone says your name
for the last time.

I fall in love with a poet,
and she never stop carving
each letters of my name
Ink seeps from veins and arteries
she pours the warmth of my blood
drawing a line between real and fake

shamelessly, to remember
her name is encapsulated
in eternity, through her words
1.5k · Nov 2018
d r e a m s.
Safira Azizah Nov 2018
I believe,
dreams have their own power
they feed on inspiration and contemplation
they are full of life,
live within our soul.

hence,
I will never stop, to believe in
dreams
'cause I fall in love with a concept so magical, it's celestial
that freed us to be irrational
and exceptional.


         d        r        e       a        m       s

Each letters of 'dreams,'
therein lies mystery and beauty:
it is missions that was entrusted to us,
and we,
in turn need to trust it.

Respect dreams.
sensible or unbelievable,
logical or super fictional,
because they are intrical

therefore
let it flourish,
keep it alive,
make it real.
1.1k · Dec 2018
To see you, at last.
Safira Azizah Dec 2018
is spontaneous, almost natural
like the crashing waves
strutting their sparkly magic before my eyes

Missing you
is the ocean,
the endless widespread,
conquering one's soul; ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀mine.

These days
I'm sailing this vast ocean to find
the edge of this wilderness

to see you, at last.
1.1k · Dec 2018
heroine.
Safira Azizah Dec 2018
inside her room
evening sun felt a little too humid
as though pit of fire,
compile a nagging
desire to strip off her skin.
she wants to escape completely,
from her own body; naked.
getting rid of modesty
from her honesty.

it's ******* hot,
though rain falls in the city,
her scream still goes fiery,
something about this sun has made her feels uneasy,
she'd be lying if she said wasn't sick of it.

it seems like life hasn't always been terribly fun,
and she's unsure if it's the weather
or her heroine.
1.0k · Aug 2019
Dosa
Safira Azizah Aug 2019
Garis-garis senja yang tegas
duduk tenang di depan
rayapan manusia,
mencuri dengar insan-insan
yang menyiangi dosa-dosa mereka
dengan pengakuan-pengakuan suci.

Pengakuan mereka mengepul
bersama asap keretek
yang kemudian membubung,
menggema sampai ke surga.

Matahari tersenyum,
termanggut menyimak khidmat,
hingga rona kemerahan menjelma
gelap seperti lebam.
Pengakuan dosa-dosa yang murni,
lembut dan tak ternoda seperti bayi.

Mereka diampuni
agar insan mendosa lagi.
836 · Dec 2018
berhenti menulis
Safira Azizah Dec 2018
tahu apa aku?
tahu apa aku tentang bumi
tahu apa aku tentang puisi
tahu apa aku tentang diri
tahu apa aku tentang hati
tahu apa aku tentang diksi
tahu apa aku tentang mimpi
tahu apa aku tentang dingin
tahu apa aku tentang pergi
tahu apa aku tentang semua ini,
tahu apa aku tentang semua itu?


aku butuh berdiam diri
menarik garis batas
menginjakkan kaki
di ambang pikiran yang waras
aku akan berhenti menulis
sampai waktu tiba
dimana aku tahu dan mengerti.
693 · Dec 2018
deforestasi
Safira Azizah Dec 2018
jika pengawahutanan terus terjadi,
adalah manusia yang perlahan akan mati.
627 · Dec 2019
padam rasa
Safira Azizah Dec 2019
Aku suka kata-kata
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ begitu pun kamu
tapi bukankah
Seno pernah mengutuk kata-kata karena
mereka sudah terlalu banyak di dunia?*
.kata-kata tak punya makna
apalagi jiwa
kata-kata mudah menguap
sampai kita harus (mengurungnya)
sebelum terevaporasi entah-berentah
tak lagi dipahami!

Apa arti 'kita'
jika kata-kata tak punya makna?

Aku cukup payah
mencari kata 'kita' di antara tumpukan buku
yang tak selesai kubaca.

Kamu pernah bilang
aku membiusㅡmembisukan
tapi bukankah kata hanya sampai
bila diutarakan? tidak ke selatan, 'kan?

Kata-kata memang tak punya makna
apalagi yang tak tersampaikan
kata-kata mudah dilupakan
meski kamu pandai meramu kata
menjadi sajak-sajak cinta, dan menyuapiku:
semua terasa getir, aku tak punya selera.

Aku hanya bisa
menelan perasaan penasaran
yang tak kunjung habis.

Hingga aku kepayahan
merapal kata-kata 'kita,'
entah-berentah
Aku belum paham.
September 2019
.*dalam cerpen Seno Gumira Ajidarma "Sepotong Senja untuk Pacarku"
#sajaktober
#metafora
592 · Sep 2019
#ReformasiDikorupsi
Safira Azizah Sep 2019
Apa yang terjadi ketika
minyak tanah bertemu api?
Kebakaran.
Itulah yang terjadi pada kami
Saling menghabisi sampai terlalu sering.

Tapi terkutuklah!
Tiada habis-habisnya sumber daya kami,
mungkin baru habis kala reyot nanti!/
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
Saat-saat kami melebur
menghasilkan bunga api yang berkobaran—
saling mengadu tinggi lidah api,
hingga disembur air mata
dari mulut sang jawara,
itu lebih berharga dalam sarekat ini
dibandingkan bercokol bagai sahaya di kelas./

Sungguh absurd.
Sepertinya kami harus jauh-jauh
dari lahan gambut,
biar tak ada lagi karhutla bersengkarut.
Sebab Lautan pun
membara dekat-dekat kami./

Tapi
Jangan serius-serius betul lah
Kami lucu benar, percayalah.
Kami lebih suka berkelakar,
daripada diciduk karena jadi makar.
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
#ReformasiDikorupsi
490 · Apr 2018
desire
Safira Azizah Apr 2018
she wants you
       and
                   you want something




                         more beautiful.
454 · Apr 2018
FREE
Safira Azizah Apr 2018
I look up
to the ceiling
as I close my eyes
and open up my mind
as I imagine how free I would be
if I fly away through the chimney
fly like the birds
sleep in the clouds

but to be free,
doesn't always mean
I can fly
I can run away
I can do as I wish

to be free is,
to let my feelings grow
to overtake myself from ego
to cry and not to be ashamed
to love unconditionally
to give myself a time
to forgive the one who hurted me



find the peace of mind
and live the moment.
450 · May 2018
Instagram
Safira Azizah May 2018
This kind of drug I’m addicted to,
I’m consuming my digital junk
in the corner of my bed
help myself get caged
comparing myself to another: lies.

Tell them I lived well,
contradiction to the real
the empty spaces of my universe
pleaded other to stay.

Here I am
wasting three, five, nine hours
dusk, day and night
scrolling through a windows
of nice place.


I am an escapee
from the prison of life.
449 · Mar 2019
beautiful mind
Safira Azizah Mar 2019
my mind's
peat forest
drained dry
my thoughts are
wildfire flares
in the nights
and
some fires
never die out.
Safira Azizah Feb 2019
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these words are automatically copied in the news i recently copied from a website talking about climate change. i found this interesting as this gave me a new light on online media platform cause they also needed money and we still "buy" the advertisement as we read the news eventhough we find it irritating. this too shaped the economy aspects of journalism in this era.
376 · Apr 2021
Surat dari Alina
Safira Azizah Apr 2021
Sukab yang naif dan tidak tahu diri,
aku masih hidup dan terpaksa
melayangkan surat ini kepadamu.

Aku mengelayap, mencari jalan pulang dengan nyawa yang sudah tak menempel di badan. Semenjak air bah tumpah ruah dari atas bukit kapur, nyawaku entah tersangkut di mana.

Mengapa aku masih hidup itu misteri. Mungkin karena cintamu yang sialan itu. Idih, menyatakannya saja membuatku mual dan jijik.

Akibat cintamu, hidupku terselaput kegelapan. Tapi lihatlah, bintang jatuh bertebaran di atas gelombang laut dan bayangannya terpantul-pantul, berbinar dan indah. Aku melihat wajahku dan bola mata yang tampak terang di antara kelegaman malam.

Apakah, akhir-akhir ini, batinmu kalut juga, Sukab?

Pemandangan di samudera membuat manusia menerawang jauh ke masa lalu dan sempurna melemparkan pikiran kepada dekapan kenangan. Persis seperti omong kosong yang kau selalu bicarakan dulu.

Bagaimana tentang akhir  hidup? Surga manakah yang sudi menerima kita? Akankah kita kembali atau mengembara lebih jauh lagi? Bisakah kau hitung dan bertaruh dengan dadu tentang nasib?

Aku tidak suka kira-kira,
aku mau jawaban yang pasti.

Jawab aku, Sukab.
358 · Mar 2021
Jawaban
Safira Azizah Mar 2021
Bukankah kita terlihat begitu jauh?
sementara jarak sudah melipat dirinya begitu lekat, supaya Kau dan Aku
melupakan bahwa semuanya
pernah terjadi dan sudah selesai.

Apa yang diinginkan kata dari Kita berdua?
sepertinya mereka ingin Kau mengeja namaku yang sama sekali sulit diucapkan lidahmu, katamu lidah itu kelu dan kaku. Kau bohong.

Pernahkah Kau menenggelamkan diri
dalam bayangan yang terpantul dari cermin?
seakan mataku mengambang di sana
dan senyumku persis terpahat di bibirmu.

Jawabannya
Aku tahu dan Kau juga tahu.
336 · Apr 2018
Can't
Safira Azizah Apr 2018
I can't wake up to feel happy
let alone happy
these eyelids are heavier than the burdens
these shoulders aren't trained soldiers
I can't open my eyes to reality
barely read the newspaper
I'd rather dive into my dreamland
it's safer and soundly there
so I closed my eyes
wraped up with blanket

this is life, I thought.
just a feeling whenever i meet sunday
326 · Apr 2018
The moment when
Safira Azizah Apr 2018
The moment when
I look at the old pictures
of us

   ;weird poses
   ;odd expressions
   ;laughing at each others
Such an exemplary
of our chemistry
showing the world
we were fools back then

A wave of longing
washed through myself
and a dryness caught
in my throat
that even the tea could not moisten

Because I realized it’s time
          to accept
There is no longer “us”
What do I do now that I miss you?
324 · Sep 2019
Terbang
Safira Azizah Sep 2019
Kini kamu bukan hanya
berdiri di atas kaki sendiri
Melampauinya-
kamu berani berdiri
di atas permukaan laut
yang hitam dan muram

Menyelaminya dalam-dalam
tersedak-sedak air asin
mendesak-desak ruang
dengan gelagat cemas
sambil menderit-derit
seperti mesin berdesing

Dan aku bangga
melihat mu mampu
bahkan mulai menantang
batas-batas ruang dalam waktu
yang berkelebatan

Maka terbanglah, kawan ku!

Terbanglah--
karena luas laut tak mampu
membendung derai hasratmu
Terbanglah jauh
karena dunia taksabar menantimu

Terbanglah dan lupakan
lautan itu

Lautan yang selalu kau kutuk: Sialan
bila malam datang dan pagi
enggan kau jumpai
Maka lupakan ia
lalu

Terbanglah
sekarang
juga!
318 · Sep 2019
mata kuliah silvikultur
Safira Azizah Sep 2019
Benih investasi
adalah basa-basi
yang ditaburkan pada bedeng mimpi
lalu dibiarkan bersemai, menjadi
omong kosong yang menjulang tinggi.

Dalam pendar pariwara
diksi-diksi bersandiwara
demi sebuah pasti yang tiada
dibubuhi bukti yang mengada-ada

hanya ada pundi-pundi
bersembunyi di balik senyum keparat
yang gilang gemilang
begitu girang lagi gemirang.

Investasi, investasi
masa kini, masa nanti
omong kosong tetaplah
omong kosong.
287 · Apr 2018
What We Are
Safira Azizah Apr 2018
we are what we see
we are what we listen to
we are what we love
we are what we read to
we are what we cry for
we are everything we've ever wished for
we are diamond constantly rotating,
shaped,
curved,
shattered,
scattered,
in the process
sometimes we lost ourselves,
                                                      ­a broken piece of diamond
                                                      try­ing to find our other pieces.
we are all diamond, we will find ourselves eventually.

please leave a comment if you feel like ir~
Safira Azizah Sep 2019
ruang
pembatas
pendekam

membuat
kepalanya

menengadah
ke angkasa

melukiskan
seribu
tanda tanya.

Membubung ia pergi;
terbang meninggalkan pulang.
228 · Dec 2018
Padam Rasa
Safira Azizah Dec 2018
Aku rindu

Jatuh hati

sampai Patah hati.
224 · Apr 2018
How?
Safira Azizah Apr 2018
“How could something so menial drive someone so greatly?”
221 · Dec 2019
stargaze
Safira Azizah Dec 2019
Te dije que yo so-la me queria ir. Quiero estar a solas con usted. Mirar las estrellas. Un poco de distracción es bueno para la imaginación. estarás bien, siempre en mi corazón.
Safira Azizah Mar 2020
I'm so anxious, darling I'm so
in love with you. I can't bear the fact
that the end is (indeed) near.

So I will be honest in here, in my words
I swear by your honey-voice and your tempting eyes. I can't see where the future will lead us. I can't tell you, but I am so
anxious darling.

I'm so in love with you.
175 · Oct 2020
Maybe Love
Safira Azizah Oct 2020
Maybe love is a warm cup of tea,
and a bowl of mie rebus
with half cooked egg,
that he made when you're
pouring rain

But when it gets cold, bitter
and lost its flavor bliss
you simply left because it's
unpalatable and you're
full of yourselfㅡ
169 · Dec 2019
Safira Azizah Dec 2019
bunga itu
biru atau kelabu?
merah itu
darah atau memar di dada?
mengapa kau menutupinya dengan
biru dan legam,
apakah kau betul berkabung
atau hanya ikut berseragam?

bebungaan
menyatu dalam diam
menyaru ke alam
realm nun kelam

bebungaan bicara
dengan warna
dan bermekar-mekaran
162 · Oct 2020
Green Tea
Safira Azizah Oct 2020
How are you privileged to drink tea
while they're huffing and puffing.

Should you gulp it down
while it's boiling hot,
gushing down your throat.

Let a chug of it burn your desire,
left blisters on your scorched tongue,
like your mouth caught on foul-fire.

That's how I should have it,
if I were you.
159 · May 2020
hide
Safira Azizah May 2020
I'm now far away
more distant than ever.

Here shall I hide
where you can not run to:
a ridiculous, stormy place.

Can not you see
the wall I built high?

Dear, how can not you see this?
153 · Dec 2019
home
Safira Azizah Dec 2019
I took refuge in your eyes, lied in the bed of your lies believe it or not, I know these affection tastes like formalityㅡ they're bland and bitter. They're not sacred, they're lust.

I looked at you in the eyes, to realize there's no one home.
145 · May 2020
Block
Safira Azizah May 2020
write a little,
delete
delete
delete.

this goes too long,
'til i forgot how to write anymore.
138 · Dec 2019
perpustakaan
113 · Mar 2020
Wreckages
Safira Azizah Mar 2020
There will always be
something broken left
in the attic.
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
Kissing the dust,
A hide out
from sun rays.

There will always be
something silenced right
behind

the closed door:
mom's chapped lips
dad's cracked hands

Shushed— "let our child sees no traces,
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ let them think it's alright."

Not even a brave wave
could sink it down

they’re holding still
the water's rising, seeps
through every nook and cranny.

but,
won’t a small leak sink a great ship?

He loves antiques, so much
he would turn it into
a shipwreck—reserved and intact.
112 · Mar 2020
kind of love
Safira Azizah Mar 2020
Our love is a sacred hardshipㅡ
shared,
in one portion.

and every bits
of our goodbye kiss
will be the very time of us.

As if the Time
was once made
just for us.
101 · Mar 2020
little white lies
Safira Azizah Mar 2020
a poet's greatest sin lies
in the bed of lies to those
who believes in truth
98 · Mar 2020
flowers
Safira Azizah Mar 2020
i hope the flowers know they're loved,
by the way they're addressed in a delicate
manner and kind words

i hope flowers died knowing they are loved. not because of their beauty, but their being, their prescence, the ethereal experience they made, the joy they spark

i hope flowers loved by many, as lovers do.
by the way they're looked at, by the softest gaze laid upon their petals.
96 · Mar 2020
home
Safira Azizah Mar 2020
we could always go back to the place
where our heart belong or
moving farther to the unknown
we've never imagined before.

search for a home, burrow deeper into it, continually growing, for it is what makes us alive.
83 · Mar 2020
Nightmares
Safira Azizah Mar 2020
it comes when no one expected it the most
it's lurking,
watching your fragile steps in fast-paced,
following you.
they only attack when you're lost,
full of doubts, vulnerable in your sleep.

then, the peak.

when it left you puzzled,
questioning your mind,
"is it real or is it a fantasy?"
'cause it haunts you as if it's real
the colors are vivid
the feelings are untamed
the heart is at its openness

in your dream
you saw me drowning
in the deep water, gasping for breath.
you saw the world at its worst, you recalled your early days where you cry out in absolute silence.

"it could be real! it must be!"
you thought.

but it is not.
i can assure you,
it is not what scares you.

tell me your nightmares, darling
cry, bleed, ache
let me kiss you and
send your sleepless nights away.

although you're afraid of it,
let me love you as you are.
believe me when I say,
I will never leave you.
have you ever woke up from nightmare and you started crying?

— The End —