Tugu Railway

An emptiness The 06.00 p.m. train was approaching the Tugu Railway with its loud, noisy bell. I felt uneasy. I wanted to scream and spill out anything inside my heart, and told her not to leave because I…very…how …I….ohhh…I was confused, dizzy, had a hollow feeling. I did not know what to do or what to say either. Yesterday, a day before her departure, she told me everything, especially about hurtness and love problem. How could the world so cruel to her. It is not fair. Why did she have to tell me that three years long she was so lonely. It was painful for me to remember the story. Ring……ring….ring…the station master had signaled the passengers to get on the train as the train was about to leave. “Take care, all right?” I said. She nodded. “Give my regards to all my friends,” my friends in Jakarta…… “All right,” she replied. We ran to look for her compartement. We found it. She got into the cart, looked doubtful and stpeed down again. She held her shoulders and looked at me straight into my eyes. She expected that I would say some long comforting good bye words. “Good bye.” Those were the only words coming out of my mouth. Yet she managed to give me her smile as if she had been fine. She stepped up again and look back, shouting, “Give me a call!” The train started to move. Thr rain started to fall. People started to leave the station. My heart started to feel an emptiness. I prayed to God silently and asked His permission to let her come back to this lovely town, to me. The rain was heavy. My heart was heavy, too. For a temporary, I felt at a loss. What would I do? I look around and I saw the people waiting for the rain stop. They were talking, reading trains’ schedule, smoking. Suddenly, I remembered my old motorbike being parked in the opening parking lot. That’s the only friend of mine now. Nothing to think, nothing to do and nothing else……..Will she back for me? I didn’t know. May be someday…….I just wanted she would be back to this lovely town, back for me. Preety, here, there, in one place that so far from you, there was one heart always and always waiting you back. And its only one thing :

“ I L OV E HE R ”