The birds told your grief (By. Cecep samsul hari1967)

The birds told your grief

Because you suddenly refused to greet the flowers
The leaves fell more quickly than usual
and the dew
departed silently
leaving no messages

the birds told the wind of your grief
and the twilight, flowed with the rivers
down into the silent sea

because you refused to play with the fireflies
the morning was restless
outside your lonely door
it longed for your happy daughter
like a child finding a lost toy

the birds told the wind of your grief
and the twilight, flowed with the rivers
down into your heart

Paraphrase

The poem “the birds told your grief” tells us about a girl’s grief. The girl’s grief also influence everyone else surrounding her; family, close friends. People surrounding her also feel the same grief with her, because they really care with her. They not only feel the same grief, but also try to help her; they support and cheer him up. They really miss the happiness and happy laughter in her life comes again.

Comment

The poem tells that we live in society, we will never walk alone. There are still other people who care about us whenever we are in happiness or even when we are in any sadness or face some difficulties in life. Actually, I believe that this poem gives us spirit in life; it makes us aware that we are not alone in this world. Because sometimes, some grief will make us give up in life if we do not realize that we still have other people to help us.
The first stanza tells about someone’s action which represent a grief “Because you suddenly refused to greet the flowers”. I think the word “flowers” in this case means people surrounding her, in this line also written the word “greet” but in this case, it does not mean in to the real meaning, but may be she refuses to hang out or having a cup of coffee together. The second line of the first stanza tells that other people also feel the same grief (it is influenced by her grief) because they really care with her. It is represented in “the leaves fell more quickly than usual” and at the following line also written “the dew departed silently leaving no message” means her surroundings (friends) do not know how to entertain her anymore.
The second stanza tells about people when they share or talk each other about her grief in order to find the solution of her grief. It is represented in “the birds told the wind of your grief”. They want to solve the grief because they also feel grieved, it is represented in 2nd and 3rd line of 2nd stanza “and the twilight, flowed with the rivers down into the silent sea”. It shows that they really care with her.
The third stanza tells about people surrounding her really miss her happy laughter. We can see it in the words “restless” in second line of the third stanza. Happy laughter is represented by “like a child finding a lost toy”, we can imagine how happy the child is when he find a lost toy.
The last stanza tells about sympathy of people surrounding her. We can see it in the 2nd line of the last stanza, “and the twilight, flowed with the rivers”. In this stanza also tells that people not only grieved of that, but also try to help her, represented in “down into your heart”.
What the author writes in this poem is really useful to cheer someone up when she is in sadness even for me myself. It can give strong spirit and strong reason not to give up in life. It pasteurizes about socialism and/or close relationship in daily life. We have to live contiguously and help each other.

Question:
Shall we hide our grief in order not to make people surrounding us become sad as we are?

Taken from Literature appreciation project