Kematian Adalah Perayaan

Ia telah lama merawat tubuhnya untuk jadi makanan bagi hewan dan tumbuhan
Ia bermimpi hewan-hewan bermigrasi ke makamnya yang kelak jadi rumah tempat tinggal mereka

Tangannya ingin menjelma ranting memeluk kesedihan anak-anaknya yang datang untuk meninggalkan satu per satu impian masa kecil mereka
Ia bersedih kematian datang padanya tergesa-gesa
Kini sejauh apapun pelukan itu merentang, kesedihan tinggal dan menanggalkan umur mereka

Sekarang ia masih hidup sebagai:
ingatan dalam kata-kata ibuku,
huruf-huruf dalam namaku,
baju yang terlipat dalam lemariku,
penyakit yang kelak datang padaku,
senyum dan tangis orang-orang yang melihatku di acara keluarga,

tapi kehidupan adalah pesta
orang-orang datang merayakan ia sebagai manusia
dan melepas dia pergi sebagai ikan yang berenang di kematian*

*Salah satu scene dalam film Big Fish oleh Tim Burton

Death Is a Celebration

He had been patiently taken care of his body so that later animals and plants could eat from
He dreamt of animals migrated to his grave and later settle down as a place they could call home

His hands want to become branches embracing the sadness of his children who came to abandon all of their childhood memory
He is sad that death himself came in hurry
Now that no matter how far he wanted to embrace them, sadness clung and knock their ages down

Now he lives as a:
memories in my mother’s words,
letters behind my name,
folded Clothes inside my wardrobe,
disease that will soon fall upon me,
laughter as well as sadness of the people who saw me on the family party

But life is a celebration
People come and celebrate him as human
And let him go as as fish swimming in the river called death*

*Scene from the movie Big Fish directed by Tim Burton