the boat and Rejang river |
One day
I saw, i heard
about the person
she dead, in front of my house
people are chaos, i can saw lori
pertahanan awam in front of their house
people are assemble there
who is she?
I’m not even knowing her
But why i felt like someone saying
goodbye
The last goodbye to me
And i remember Emily Dickinson
poem
"There's been a Death, in the
Opposite House,"
She dead when she is sleeping
last night
Some said because of the dengue fever
She leaves two children
No husband, they’re divorce long
time ago
The only thing i know that
She is a mother
Could be a sister to someone
And a daughter
At least she is someone whom
precious to the person that loved her
Flashback to the story long time
a ago
Where me and my family sank at Rejang river
When our ‘speedboat’collapse
between the ferry and express
When this happen, at that time
i’m just 9 years old (Primary three)
What i can remember from this
tragedic memory is that
I’m wet, and tali perahu
mengheret me to the deeper level
While my dad trying to save me
Luckily dady succeed to cut the
tali and saving me
While mumy and my siblings
bergayut above the tank
It was Gawai season
And people are drunk and
karaoke-ing
Not far from the place that we
sank
There a longhouse, it’s called
Rumah Ngiring (if i’m not mistaken)
Someone from that house was heard
somebody yelling for “help!”
And that sound came from my mom
and dad
Who struggle and hoping for
someone could heard and help us
Five minutes later, luckily there
was a few sampan and people from the
longhouse i mentioned above come and save us
If not because of them from that
longhouse saving us
I and my family maybe not alive
until this day
Maybe ours destiny not ended
there yet
And we still have purposes in
this journey of life
What are the related story above
to the person that who just dead
What suprise me is that, she also
come from that longhouse
Maybe the time i was kid and sank
at that river
She and her relatives might be the
person that help me and my family
And then i realize she could be
the person whom saving my family and i
And i do believe that in this
world we’re bound by seven person that might be related to us
And i still remember the theater
we had produce when i was in my 2nd years at University
‘6 degree of separations’ is one
of the theory which mentioned
We could be related to 7 peoples
in this world
And yes, that was so true!
And happen in my life
When mom said to help at least
giving her family some money to support the procedure
To bring her back to the
longhouse
Even it small at least we could
help them
And i pray May the Lord blessed
her soul
And R.I.P.
That day, before she depart..it
suddenly raining
Somehow showing that she is
crying to leave the earth
The house, her sons and her
friend there...
I saw the lorry bring her inside
And her coffin
Until it lost from my sight...
On that day, i can’t felt like
the earth saying the last goodbye...
And until next time the day we’ll
meet again...