courage

Aneh, tiba-tiba aku ingat Amelia Earhart (b.1887), perempuan pemberani yang berambisi mengelilingi bola bumi dalam suatu solo-flight. Hilang somewhere di lautan Pasifik, 2 Juli 1937.

Courage (by Amelia Earhart)

Courage is the price that
Life exacts for granting peace.

The soul that knows it not
Knows no release from little things:
Knows not the livid loneliness of fear,
Nor mountain heights where bitter joy can hear the sound of wings.

Nor can life grant us boon of living, compensate
For dull gray ugliness and pregnant hate
Unless we dare
The soul’s dominion.
Each time we make a choice, we pay
With courage to behold the resistless day,
And count it fair.

Ikut menyanyi: surjo,

untuk mereka yang sedang mengalami kekosongan, dan salut bagi dia, seorang sahabat, yang telah masuk ke keabadian dengan penuh keberanian.