Soul Mate

Laying in the dark with glowing hearts, you held on tight and told me that,
"Once upon a time, when gods and people existed together, people had four arms and four legs. They had two heads and two faces. They existed happily as they were and grew more powerful as time went on. The gods decided that the humans were getting too powerful and needed to be put back into place somehow, so they cut the humans in half. Each human now had only tow arms, two legs, one head, and one face. They had to spend the rest of their lives searching for their other halves to make themselves whole again. It became the point of life."

You are what secures me, the night light that keeps monsters away.
The completion of the tedious book. The story line to a perfect movie.
It's more important than the ground I walk on, despite that floating feeling you always leave in my head and in my chest.

Without you, I'd be a lesser version of myself.
We're healing dry veins and fragile bones.
We are everything.

Laying in the dark with glowing hearts, I felt your eyes piercing mine and you said that, "Neither of us meant to get attached, but the humans never meant to get separated. The point of their life was to find their other half and it happened no matter what. You are my fate."



Puisi di atas berkisah mengenai mitologi Yunani, yakni cerita mengenai cinta dan takdir. Aku tidak membuat puisi tersebut, tentunya. Aku hanya menemukannya.

Kisah ini, di satu sisi memang terlihat negatif karena bisa diartikan bahwa kita dapat meninggalkan pasangan kita tanpa berusaha mengatasi berbagai rintangan dalam suatu hubungan. Kita dapat meninggalkannya dengan berasalan, "Dia bukanlah bagian dari diriku yang telah ditakdirkan."

Namun, di sisi lain, kisah ini sungguh indah. Jika diartikan bahwa orang yang mempertahankan kita hingga pernikahan merupakan bagian dari diri kita yang telah lama hilang, maka kita akan merasa bahwa hidup sungguh berarti bersamanya...
...bahwa bersamanya diri kita menjadi utuh...
..bahwa tanpanya, kita tidak akan menjadi sekuat dan sebahagia sekarang ini.
Keyakinan inilah yang mampu membuat kita bertahan dalam perjalanan panjang dan keras...
...dalam perjalanan merajut cinta.