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arby Mar 27
Lari dan lompatlah setinggi yang kau bisa,
agar kau jatuh di tempat yang layak kau perjuangkan.

Bahkan jika bumi menarikmu dengan gravitasinya,
jangan ragu melawan, teruslah mendaki.

Selama harapan masih bersemayam di dada,
tak ada yang terlalu sepele untuk diperjuangkan.

Terlebih, jika itu membawa kebaikan,
maka berlarilah, melompatlah dengan keyakinan.
Lewati batas, tantang ketinggian,
namun ingat, kita manusia,
tak selamanya di puncak.

Karena itu, jangan lupakan daratan,
tempat di mana kaki berpijak,
dan jiwa menemukan keseimbangan.
Charlie Harman Feb 2024
Twenty-four.
A number just one before
twenty-five.
A number that signifies
one quarter
of one-hundred,
-in this case-
years of age.

I've circled the sun so many times
that time itself has begun to blend together:

Days spilled into
                       Weeks cascaded into
                                                    Months plunged into
                                                                                  years; incalculable.

I neglect to mention that throughout it all I have,
in fact,
been vaguely happy at worst and genuinely blissful at best.

And so I say to thee;
If on your birthday you cannot breathe,
If every moment is lost with ease,
I implore you, see the cost of these
things-and learn to set yourself free.
24 Years old...It sure has been one helluva trip.

— The End —