Imaginary You
Your stares
just like Zeus's lightning
So your
eyes state as Poseidon's sea
The way you
look at me burns my soul
Your voice
is my mellifluous
You came to
me holding mine gently
"You're
my perfect home"
Your
whisper through the wind
Makes my
butterfly clapping along
Apollo
slays his arrow
Even Aphrodite starts murmuring magical love
Suddenly,
you fade away
And your
dark shadows go like a ghost
"Where
are you?"
I missed
you madly
My heart
aches finding you everytime
Shed tears
down like a river
I lost the
loved one
"Wake
up!"
The sound
speaks out
The reality
comes along
Awareness
kills everything
My blue
sings loudly
Still,
you're the colours of my rainbow
Though in
my beautiful dreamland
-Ariany
Restu Kurnia Santi-
The poem uses
language features metaphore and personification to deliver the story. In the
first stanza, there are two metaphore in
the first
and second line. They are “Your stares just like Zeus's lightning” and
“So your eyes state as Poseidon's sea”. There is also the use of
personification in line 3 which shows in “The way you look at me burns my
soul”. The word ‘mellifluous’ means voice
or piece of music is smooth and gentle and very pleasant to hear. The first
stanza describes about a person who the writer loves which has beautiful eyes
as Poseidon’s sea and the stare is very intense like Zeus’s lightning. She also
tells the reader that his voice is her favourite thing using the word
‘mellifluous’.
The second
stanza shows what he does to her. The writer uses the word ‘mine’ in line “You
came to me holding mine gently” that means her hands. He comes to her and holds
her hands while whispering "You're my perfect home". Home is meant as
the last place somebody will come back after he or she goes anywhere. She also writes a line using personification
in “Makes my butterfly clapping along”.
Butterfly in this context is her heart. Therefore line four has meaning that
her heart is beating so fast.
In the third stanza there is against
situation. Firstly, they are falling in love each other which shown by two
lines “ Apollo slays his arrow” and “Even Aphrodite starts murmuring magical love”. Apollo’s arrow commonly uses to make a man and a woman
fall in love. Aphrodite is beauty and love goddesses in ancient Greek. When she
spends her love spell no one can not repel it. Suddenly, he is gone without any
traces.
She tries to find him
everywhere she can go, but it is all unuseful. She is very sad. She can not
stop crying. She really misses him, but there is nothing she can do to make him
comeback. These scene stated in the forth stanza.
The fifth and the sixth stanzas have
relation about what really happens to her. In the fifth stanza, the writer
writes that there is a sound who wakes her up and she realizes the real
situation. What really happens to her is shown in the last line of sixth stanza
with “Though
in my beautiful dreamland” which means she
is only dreaming about him. She feels very gloomy
remembering him that only exists in her imagination. But, she still feels happy
to have that dream which shown by “Still, you're the colours of my rainbow”. “The colours of my rainbow” has meaning that he has
given her very beautiful memories just like the colour of rainbow.
Ariany Restu Kurnia Santi