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On Poem: How Much?

 How Much? a.m How much did you lose yourself in make you feel relate to others? How much did you lose yourself in order to be understood by others? How much did you lose yourself in order to look right with others? How much did you lose yourself in order to be accepted by others? I t’s funny when we make ourselves to be that someone who always suppresses themselves to be kind, unique, fool, scary, fun, mysterious, clever, tough, wise all the time when we know nothing suppresses us to be so yet we also know it is tiring to be so. When did it all start? And now, how much of yourself is left ?

On Poem: White Ceiling

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 W hite Ceiling arc So I lay here on the bathroom floor Feels like I never made it to the shore Ssst, there's a knock on the door Stay still I don't bother anymore Swarm over like I’m a discount store Asking all the questions, I've always wonder Check the pulse, not beating any faster Mother feels my cheeks, it’s getting colder

On Poem: Lonely

Lonely Athiyyah Nur Hanifah Fear, Loss, Negativity controlling my mind each day I used to be a bright sunflower in a sacred forest but the storm, pain, turn me into a dead tree There’s a man standing behind He's the well-known philosopher The one and only, Friedrich Nietzsche He said  “In loneliness, the lonely one eats himself;  in a crowd, the many eat him.  Now choose, kid” “Too late, it's already eating me” I look at him in the eye with the sight of sorrow I asked him a question,  “Sir, does loneliness exist in every part of the soul?” He answers “Yes, it does” He walks toward me  “And when the happiness removed, the loneliness will take the crown”

On Book Review: Sumatera Tempo Doeloe

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  Reviewer      :  Miliani Wulandari (History Education 2020) Book            : Sumatera Tempo Doeloe Author          :  Anthoney Reid    From the 9th century to the 20th century, was the most fascinating period in the history of Sumatra's development. Anthony Reid (a leading expert on Sumatran history) made a book that contains very important documentation to reconstruct the history of Sumatra. In his book, there are notes and stories of explorers who have come to Sumatra at various times. It does not tell the state of Sumatra as a whole, but there is a general description of social, economic, political, social, and cultural changes in Sumatra. By reading this book, we will get to know things we might never get from other official history books, such as when Marco Polo saw and suspected that the Unicorn was in Sumatra (what Marco saw in Sumatra could be a rhino instead). There...