Tuesday, February 03, 2009

Grandma ( an Ode to you )


1901 was your year, you open your eyes

You were my living history book

Adoration of family, my blood related

I saw the old times panorama through your eyes

Through your hand writings

Through your conservative opinions and your old fashioned stuffs

You were always keeping up with me when I was grown up

You were watched me …through the whole years

Carry me into your arms when I was cry

I miss your warm embrace

You were my first teacher in any occasion

Teaching me everything I need to know

I memorized your wisdom words string

You were truly best friend of mine

You were full of love and kindness

You were there when I was awaken from my fever sleep

You were wealthy with stories, fairy tales and nursery rhymes

It was lulled me and sometimes decorating my dreams

You were the sacred one with ten magic fingers

The fingers that used to hugging my face, curing me, and tidy up my curly hair

When electricity going off,

we used to play shadows using our fingers in candlelit

You were storing previous old time stories,

About your young age and youthfully habit of your time

About Saladine versus Lion heart,

About the battles period,

About the period of Dutch colonial domination, Japan occupancy, and Pacific war

I was knowing from you about Titanic’s catastrophe,

far away before the movie was released in 1997,

that you said you were hearing the news from the old fashioned radio box with broken off signal on the living room when you were young

Your stories heard to me like the sound of music box with a dancing ballerina on top, like the rhythm of Glósóli or Frosti, beautiful rhapsody.

Now the box has closed, as your time was done

1995 was your year, you closed your eyes

Thank you for being there beside me since the first day of my life

Your memories will always remain as well as my gratitude and prays to you

Miss you with all of my heart.


In loving memory of Hj Fathimah Hamidin Moesthafa Malik ( 1901-1995 ), my beloved Grandma.


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