Manira /Damar Scouts

Episode 47's

Short episode version of the novel “Senandung HOMESU under the Broken Moon Wings”

Damar Jurors

By: Elmira Arasy Rahman

Episode 47's

Gibran leaves Manira and stands under a banyan tree holding a broom. He silently looked at Manira with a sad, pitying face. He knew that Manira was hurt. He was also very depressed because all day long only anxiety was looming on his face. Gibran sought to think objectively that not everyone should judge him.

Manira was wrong. Whatever Manira does, which everyone thinks is wrong, is really just a reaction that he shows for the bad things that happen around him, that he does not want, that are not in accordance with his conscience. He's not evil, he's not cruel, he's just reacting, just taking an act of resistance to something he doesn't want. Just a form of self-defense when there are people who try to disturb his life, his calm, even more his love. Gibran knew that love is the most important part that is at the bottom of the innermost human heart so that it cannot be erased or removed easily. But still, love makes Manira stupid. He hurt himself and made those around him hurt.

Gibran could not describe how foolish Manira was to be immersed in his love that was only filled with mud of grief. Poor Manira chose to swim in it, even though her body was full of dirty mud. People consider him stupid, people pity him and think him wrong. They want to get Manira out of that mud. But the foolish Manira chooses to survive in the puddle. He played around there, unaware of how much he was already enslaved and played with by his own deeply innocent feelings. His life, only contains empty hopes without anyone knowing whether the hope will be real or it will only bear fruit to disappointment.

A bright morning. Today should be better than yesterday. Gibran does not want to be entangled in the problem of love Manira who never finished. He wanted to start his day with something more interesting like mowing the lawn. It was better than hearing Manira's silly tale of all her folly.

Gibran carried a sack of white and then saw the disturbing grass around the tracks, near the old tunnel. He looked like a shepherd looking for grass for his cattle. His clothes were dirty, his body dirty and smelly. He did not pay attention to his appearance. Never cut his tangled hair, just comb it never. His life expectancy is absolutely zero. He just lives to eat. If you can eat today, that's enough. There is no desire to be something more. While the surrounding people had already flown into space he had only kept silent at the old station like a waiting ghost that frightened a small child.

Manira is furious to see Gibran live without such a purpose. Manira is convinced that Gibran is actually a sane and intelligent person. It was very different from his appearance that looked like a madman. But the problem was, Gibran himself had no spirit of life so there was nothing he could get other than a miserable life like this. Manira was curious, what made Gibran so hurt that he destroyed himself like this?

Seriate...