sajak MELAYU

MELAYU

Melayu itu orang yang bijaksana

Nakalnya bersulam jenaka

Budi bahasanya tidak terkira

Kurang ajarnya tetap santun

Jika menipu pun masih bersopan

Bila mengampu bijak beralas tangan.

Melayu itu berani jika bersalah

Kecut takut kerana benar,

Janji simpan di perut

Selalu pecah di mulut,

Biar mati adat

Jangan mati anak

Melayu di tanah Semenanjung luas maknanya:

Jawa itu Melayu,

Bugis itu Melayu,

Banjar juga disebut Melayu,

Minangkabau memang Melayu,

Keturunan Acheh adalah Melayu,

Jakun dan Sakai asli Melayu,

Arab dan Pakistani, semua Melayu,

Mamak dan Malbari serap ke Melayu,

Malah muallaf bertakrif Melayu

(Setelah disunat anunya itu)

Dalam sejarahnya

Melayu itu pengembara lautan

Melorongkan jalur sejarah zaman

Begitu luas daerah sempadan

Sayangnya kini segala kehilangan

Melayu itu kaya falsafahnya

Kias kata bidal pusaka

Akar budi bersulamkan daya

Gedung akal laut bicara

Malangnya Melayu itu kuat bersorak

Terlalu ghairah pesta temasya

Sedangkan kampung telah tergadai

Sawah sejalur tinggal sejengkal

Tanah sebidang mudah terjual

Meski telah memiliki telaga

Tangan masih memegang tali

Sedang orang mencapai timba

Berbuahlah pisang tiga kali

Melayu itu masih bermimpi

Walaupun sudah mengenal universiti

Masih berdagang di rumah sendiri

Berkelahi cara Melayu

Menikam dengan pantun

Menyanggah dengan senyum

Marahnya dengan diam

Merendah bukan menyembah

Meninggi bukan melonjak

Watak Melayu menolak permusuhan

Setia dan sabar tiada sempadan

Tapi jika marah tak nampak telinga

Musuh di cari ke lubang cacing

Tak dapat tanduk telinga dijinjing

Maruah dan agama dihina jangan

Hebat amuknya tak kenal lawan

Berdamai cara Melayu indah sekali

Silaturahim hati yang murni

Maaf diungkap sentiasa bersahut

Tangan dihulur sentiasa disambut

Luka pun tidak lagi berparut

Baiknya hati Melayu itu tak terbandingkan

Selagi yang ada sanggup diberikan

Sehingga tercipta sebuah kiasan:

Dagang lalu nasi ditanakkan

Suami pulang lapar tak makan

Kera di hutan disusu-susukan

Anak di pangkuan mati kebuluran

Bagaimanakah Melayu abad kedua puluh satu

Masihkah tunduk tersipu-sipu?

Jangan takut melanggar pantang

Jika pantang menghalang kemajuan;

Jangan segan menentang larangan

Jika yakin kepada kebenaran;

Jangan malu mengucapkan keyakinan

Jika percaya kepada keadilan

Jadilah bangsa yang bijaksana

Memegang tali memegang timba

Memiliki ekonomi mencipta budaya

Menjadi tuan di negara merdeka.

- Usman Awang

Nyanyian Serambi Ramli Sarip

Penulis lirik: -    Komposer: -

keluar pagi balik petang
adakala sampai malam
cari rezeki bawa pulang
buat orang yang tersayang
oh bersabarlah

wajahmu di mana-mana
senyum kasih mesra kasih
cinta murni kan bersemi
bersama ketulusan budi
oh bersemilah

lama ku cari rahsia kasih
rindu kasih untuk berkasih
senang-senang duduk diserambi
senandung lagu puisi
zikir zaman nyanyian zaman

andai kasturi hilang harum
mawar tak berkuntum
cinta tak bersambung

biar emas setinggi gunung
kan ku peluk rimbun ampun
rahmat yang Maha Agung

keluar pagi balik petang
adakala sampai malam
cari rezeki bawa pulang
buat orang yang tersayang
oh bersabarlah

wajahmu di mana-mana
senyum kasih mesra kasih
cinta murni kan bersemi
bersama ketulusan budi
oh bersemilah

lama ku cari rahsia kasih
rindu kasih untuk berkasih
senang-senang duduk diserambi
senandung lagu puisi
zikir zaman nyanyian zaman

andai kasturi hilang harum
mawar tak berkuntum
cinta tak bersambung

biar emas setinggi gunung
kan ku peluk rimbun ampun
rahmat yang Maha Agung

Bila Anu tak Naik / When it doesn’t get up

28 October 2017, by Somesh Valentino Curti

A funny title for an article about a not so funny experience for many men who have difficulties with keeping their erection during sex. I am a man myself and a Sex counselor in Amsterdam and I know how much this topic is sensitive and can cause painful feelings.

Not getting it up is still a sort of taboo between men. It is packed with shame, guilt and a sense of failure and usually we don’t like to talk about it at all. But it is a very common experience, more than we might expect. So, why not expose it? Why not to take this topic out of the cage of shame, guilt and sense of failure and make it lighter, approachable and therefore conquerable?

Men of the world, Unite!

The first thing is to start to talk about it between men. The taboo is in fact much more dangerous than the problem itself. Therefore I say… Men of the world, Unite!… Find the courage to talk about it with a friend or friends that you trust and you will see that you are not alone in this. It is so common! Let’s take down the wall of fear of judgement and rejection and be light and open about it.

Let’s learn from women

Let’s look at how our girlfriends, wives, mothers and sisters relate with each other. They talk much more freely then us men about personal issues (even too much, as we know!). They are generally not ashamed to share about sexual topics and find comfort, understanding and support. Let’s learn from them and deepen male friendships. Let’s value our friends and have the courage to allow each other to be ourselves not only when we feel good, smart and invincible but when we feel low and not good enough as well.

Real man and media man

The common image of how a man is supposed to perform during the sexual ritual in our modern societies, is the one of the macho; a rough and supercool man, mainly created by media (advertising) and porn movies. Let’s disengage from the comparison with porn-actors with a big, large penis which can stay stiff for hours making the women crazy. It is a fake, exaggerated image and creates many taboos and negative feelings. Let’s throw it out of our minds immediately!

Erection is not a performance

The first important thing to know about an erection is that we can get one when we are attracted to someone and relaxed about ourselves. If we are only attracted but not relaxed, it doesn’t happen. Having an erection is often conceived in a man’s mind as a performance, as something we have to do. Well, it is not true, an erection belongs to the category of activities like falling asleep, crying, laughing etc. We don’t do it, it happens all by itself. So, the first thing to take out of our minds is the idea that we are a failure if we don’t have an erection, because it is like feeling guilty if we cannot fall asleep.

How women see the lack of erection and sex without erection

If you have a partner, don’t hesitate to share about how this situation makes you feel. Feelings need to be expressed and not repressed. The majority of women don’t give so much importance to the erection. They have a completely different approach to sexuality than us men. They are much more looking for a feeling of connection and trust. Plus, all their body is erogenous, while we as men have our minds fixed on our penises as if sexuality is only about penetration and coming. Get out of that frame, and explore sexuality also without having an erection. A new world  of sensations, feelings and pleasures will be revealed to you.

When women reject you

In case a woman rejects and judges you, it means that she is not a good partner for you. Many women get their sense of value from being wanted sexually by a man. They use sex to get attention and self-value. If you cannot have an erection, it might trigger a sense of failure or a lack of self-esteem in them and, if they are not aware of that, they might reject you. Forget about it and keep looking for partners who are open to you as you are. Isn’t that what we all really want in the end? Just being accepted as we are and not as we are expected to be?

How to approach sex if you have repetitive erectile dysfunction

This is about being true to yourself. When you usually can’t get it up the first thing to do is to breathe and to give time to yourself to feel if you want to/can have sex or not. In fact, it is very important to understand your feelings in the moment and to take a step in the right direction that you feel comfortable with.

If the level of insecurity is too high, I would suggest you not to push yourself but to take a break and share what you feel with your partner. On the other hand, avoiding sex is also not a solution, and a bit of courage in approaching it, is required. You could go ahead without an erection and see if it gets up during foreplay. But keep in mind that it is possible to have a beautiful sexual experience even without erection and penetration.

Follow what you feel in the moment, but always take risks that you can afford and, with time, you will gain more confidence and trust in yourself. See it as a process of rehabilitation: A progressive training of your wounded self-esteem.

How to deal with the memory of the past episodes

Don’t let the memory of what happened before (even if it happened many times) to predict the outcome of your meeting. Each woman is unique, each moment is unique, you are unique in each moment. Approaching it afresh all the time will make it special. And be honest, if you feel too insecure, it means that there is too much pressure on yourself and sex is no more something fun and enjoyable but an arena in which you have to demonstrate your value. Just give a break to yourself, your value as man and as sex partner is much more than having an erection!

Underlying causes of erectile dysfunction

From my experience as therapist, the main causes of erectile dysfunction amongst men seem to be: stress-related problems coming from a difficult period in life;  the end of a feeling of attraction for a partner or a lack of self-esteem. During a therapy process, you are going to discover that this symptom is just the tip of the iceberg: A superficial sign of a deeper experience you are having. It affects sexuality because it is a field that attracts your attention immediately. You will not ignore it, and this is the beginning of a self-exploration that goes much deeper than just getting the erection back. In fact, when you will forget about your erection for a while, it will start happening again.

The “arena” of sex and a new invitation

Sex is a reproductive activity linked with pleasure because pleasure brings us to do it in order to reproduce the species. As human beings we’ve learnt to isolate the pleasurable experience from the reproductive function. The result of this division is that it became an “arena” in which a lot of our self-worth is built up or destroyed. Plus, living in a goal-oriented and competitive society makes us see almost all our activities as performances.

We use sex to be liked, to get attention and to check if we are ok as we are. This creates an extra weight on this simple, animalistic and joyful experience and it can put our erection down. I suggest you to approach this uncomfortable situation as an invitation to stop using sex for a purpose of self-esteem. And use it, instead, to know yourself better as man, to explore sex and its different possibilities and to become natural and innocent again also in this field of your life.