“LOVE”

Everybody has love in their life. Love is the fundament of our everyday life. Our activities are colored with love and love is the blood of our relation with God’s creatures. It is not easy to define what love is all about because love concerns many aspects and surely we can never describe what we exactly mean with love. I have some reason why I need love.

The first reason I need love because love is undescribable it is something that we can touch with our feelings and our hearts. Sometimes we say that we love someone but actually what feel is only admiration. It is said that when we feel we want to get close to someone all the time and we are willing to do everything. For that person without anything in return, we love that person. However, I personally believe that love is more than that. Even if the above defenition is close enough to the love we have for our lover, it is greater than any or its defenition in this world.

The second reason I need love because love is free. In our daily life we can divide love into several categories. We can differ the love we have for our parents. When a man and a woman make up their minds to go through this life together, we know that they are in love. When a brother brings home a sweet doll for his younger sister, we call that love even a mother is getting angry to her child. In love we not only find passion, truth and belief, but hate and hurt as well.

The Third reason I need Love because Love is everything. When someone gives love to me, I feel like home. Love is as the summer breeze, Love make my loneliness just disappear. Love teaches me to be strong when someone hurts me. Because of Love I find the truth in my soul.

The fourth reason I need Love because Love is both an action and a feeling. The action of love generates a blissful feeling called by the same name. When the action stops, the blissful feeling is replaced with pain. There is a similar feeling called lust which may be confused with love. I’m capable of great love and its opposite, fear, which generates all painful emotions such as hate, greed and jealousy.

The fifth reason I need Love because Love is unconditionally. If I cannot love another person without attaching stipulations, then it is not love at all. One who makes the most of an advantage, often unmindful of others. If I have no intention of improving that person’s life, or allowing that person to be themselves and accepting them. And I belong them to be themselves, then I’m not striving to love them unconditionally.

As a human who need love, I have some reason why I need love so much. Love is undescribable, Love is free, Love is everything, Love is an action and feeling, and the last Love is Unconditionally. Love is important in our life, because Love can color our heart. Love can make our life colorful. And without Love our life feel empty.

By : Merry Ernawati Sitorus

Falsafah Batak

Dijolo raja sieahan, dipudi raja sipaimaon
(Hormatan do natua-tua dohot angka raja).

Sada silompa gadong dua silompa ubi,
Sada pe namanghatahon Sudema dapotan Uli.

Pitu batu martindi sada do sitaon nadokdok
(Unang maharaphu tu dongan).

Jujur do mula ni bada, bolus do mula ni dame
(Unang sai jujur-jujuri salani dongan, alai bolushon ma).

Siboru buas siboru Bakkara, molo dung puas sae soada mara
(Dame ma).

Sungkunon poda natua-tua, sungkunon gogo naumposo
(Bertanggung-jawab).

UMPASA NI NAPOSO BULUNG. (Buat orang-orang muda)

Jolo tiniktik sanggar laho bahenon huru-huruan,
Jolo sinukkun marga asa binoto partuturan.

Tudia ma luluon da goreng-goreng bahen soban,
Tudia ma luluon da boru Tobing bahen dongan.

Tudia ma luluon da dakka-dakka bahen soban,
Tudia ma luluon da boru Sinaga bahen dongan.

Manuk ni pealangge hotek-hotek laho marpira
Sirang na mar ale-ale, lobianan matean ina.

Silaklak ni dandorung tu dakka ni sila-sila,
Ndang iba jumonok-jonok tu naso oroan niba.

Metmet dope sikkoru da nungga dihandang-handangi,
Metmet dope si boru da nungga ditandang-tandangi.

Torop do bittang di langit, si gara ni api sada do
Torop do si boru nauli, tinodo ni rohakku holoan ho do

Rabba na poso, ndang piga tubuan lata
Hami na poso, ndang piga na umboto hata

UMPASA MANJALO TINTIN MARANGKUP. (Untuk pasangan saat tukar cincin)

Bulung namartampuk, bulung ni simarlasuna,
Nunga hujalo hami tintin marangkup,
Dohonon ma hata pasu-pasuna.

Hot pe jabu i, tong doi margulang-gulang
Sian dia pe mangalap boru bere i, tong doi boru ni Tulang.

Sai tong doi lubang nangpe dihukkupi rere,
Sai tong doi boru ni Tulang, manang boru ni ise pei dialap bere.

Amak do rere, dakka do dupang,
Anak do bere, Amang do Tulang.

Asing do huta Hullang, asing muse do huta Gunung Tua,
Asing do molo tulang, asing muse do molo gabe dung simatua.

UMPASA TU NA BARU MARBAGAS. (Untuk pasangan yang baru menikah)

Dakka ni arirang, peak di tonga onan,
Badan muna naso jadi sirang, tondi mu marsigomgoman.

Giring-giring ma tu gosta-gosta, tu boras ni sikkoru,
Sai tibu ma hamu mangiring-iring, huhut mangompa-ompa anak dohot boru.

Rimbur ni Pakkat tu rimbur ni Hotang,
Sai tudia pe hamu mangalakka, sai tusima hamu dapot pansamotan.

Dekke ni sale-sale, dengke ni Simamora,
Tamba ni nagabe, sai tibu ma hamu mamora.

Sahat-sahat ni solu, sahat ma tu labuan,
Sahat ma hamu leleng mangolu, jala sai di dongani Tuhan.

Sahat solu, sahat di parbinsar ni ari,
Leleng ma hamu mangolu jala di iring-iring Tuhan ganup ari.

Mangula ma pangula, dipasae duhut-duhut
Molo burju marhula-hula, dipadao mara marsundut-sundut.

Ruma ijuk tu ruma gorga,
Sai tubu ma anakmuna na bisuk dohot borumuna na lambok marroha.

Anian ma pagabe tumundalhon sitodoan,
Arimu ma gabe molo marsipaolo-oloan.

Gadu-gadu ni Silindung, tu gadu-gadu ni Sipoholon,
Sai tubu ma anakmuna 17 dohot borumuna 16.

Andor hadukka ma patogu-togu lombu,
Sai sarimatua ma hamu sahat tu na patogu-togu pahoppu.

UMPASA MANGAMPU

Bulung ni Taen tu bulung ni Tulan
Ba molo tarbahen, sai topot hamu hami sahali sabulan,
Molo so boi bulung ni tulan, pinomat bulung ni salaon,
Ba molo so boi sahali sabulan, pinomat sahali sataon.

Ni durung si Tuma laos dapot Pora-pora.
Molo mamasu-masu hula-hula mangido sian Tuhan,
Napogos hian iba, boi do gabe mamora.

Songgop si Ruba-ruba tu dakka ni Hapadan,
Angka pasu-pasu na ni lehon muna,
Sai dijangkon tondi ma dohot badan.

Mardakka Jabi-jabi, marbulung ia si Tulan
Angka pasu-pasu na pinasahat muna,
Sai sude mai dipasaut Tuhan.

Naung sampulu sada, jumadi sampulu tolu,
Angka pasu-pasu pinasahat muna,
Sai anggiatma padenggan ngolu-ngolu.

Naung sapulu pitu, jumadi sapulu ualu,
Angka pasu-pasu pinasat muna hula-hula nami,
Diampu hami ma di tonga jabu.

Turtu ninna anduhur, tio ninna lote,
Angka pasu-pasu pinasahat muna,
Sai unang ma muba, unang mose.

Habang pidong sibigo, paihut-ihut bulan,
Saluhut angka na tapangido, sai tibu ma dipasaut Tuhan.

Obuk do jambulan, nidandan ni boru Samara
Pasu-pasu na mardongan tangiang sian hula-hula,
Mambahen marsundut-sundut soada mara.

Tinapu bulung nisabi, baen lompan ni pangula
Sahat ma pasu-pasu na nilehon muna i tu hami,
Sai horas ma nang hamu hula-hula.

Suman tu aek natio do hamu, riong-riong di pinggan pasu,
Hula-hula nabasa do hamu, na girgir mamasu-masu.

AKKA UMPASA NA ASING

Martahuak ma manuk di bungkulan ni ruma,
Horas ma hula-hulana,songoni nang akka boruna.

Simbora ma pulguk, pulguk di lage-lage,
Sai mora ma hita luhut, huhut horas jala gabe.

Hariara madungdung, pilo-pilo na maragar,
Sai tading ma na lungun, ro ma na jagar.

Sinuan bulu sibahen na las,
Tabahen uhum mambahen na horas.

Eme ni Simbolon parasaran ni si borok,
Sai horas-horas ma hita on laos Debata ma na marorot.

Sititik ma sigompa, golang-golang pangarahutna,
Tung so sadia pe naeng tarpatupa, sai anggiat ma godang pinasuna.

Pinasa ni Siantar godang rambu-rambuna,
Tung otik pe hatakki, sai godang ma pinasuna.

Tuat si puti, nakkok sideak,
Ia i na ummuli, ima ta pareak.

Aek godang tu aek laut,
Dos ni roha sibaen na saut.

Napuran tano-tano rangging marsiranggongan,
Badan ta i padao-dao, tondita i marsigomgoman.

Marmutik tabu-tabu mandompakhon mataniari,
Sai hot ma di hamu akka pasu-pasu, laho marhajophon akka na sinari.

Bona ni pinasa, hasakkotan ni jomuran,
Tung aha pe dijama hamu, sai tong ma dalan ni pasu-pasu.

Mandurung di aek Sihoru-horu, manjala di aek Sigura-gura,
Udur ma hamu jala leleng mangolu, hipas matua sonang sora mahua.

Dolok ni Simalungun, tu dolok ni Simamora
Salpu ma sian hamu na lungun, sai hatop ma ro si las ni roha.