Mother

by: Amira Najihah

Should we go eat together today she asked,
I said I have meeting.

When will you return home she asked,
I said I have lot of things to do.

Texted and phone calls from her...
I had been ignoring them.

She is no longer my number one priority.
After goes by, I realized something is missing.

I feel empty.
The missing spot is the time I missed to spend time with her.

She is my mother.
I promised from now on, I will spend more time with you mother...

From,
a child who missed the mother.

Mother

by: Firdaus

This is an essay about mothers. First and foremost what is a mother? Without going to the dictionary (not that I have one laying around), I would say mother is someone who loves you unconditionally. It’s hard nowadays to define what a mother is. Imagine if I was a writer for the New York times and I said, technically mother is someone who gave birth to you. Imagine the backlash from step parents and the LGBT communities if they heard that. So I’m going to stay safe and said mother is someone who loves you unconditionally, no matter what you did, what you didn’t do, if you didn’t study for a test and instead wrote an essay because you’re trying to procrastinate from opening your books, no matter what, in  end your mother is going to love you. That’s what most people think of about their mother isn’t?  

Now that raises a few questions, such as, can your girlfriend be your mother? First, that’s a weird question, second I think she can be if she wants to, she can do whatever she wants to in her life, granted she follows the law. So if she wants to be your mother, I say go ahead. I don’t see the point but she have to choose though whether she wants to be your girlfriend or your mother. She can’t be both because that would he weird. Is there a point to what I’m writing? Am I just making this up as I go? Yes to both, the point is anyone can be your mother if you let them. Because let’s face it, life isn’t fair sometimes. 

Some people might not be so lucky to have a mother in their life. So if you are feeling down and feel unloved, I would say you should go out and start saying “mommy?” to your professors or friends or even strangers. They might be weirded out and sent you to mental hospital but at least you would know, they are not the mother you deserve. Plus, if you keep asking that eventually someone will say yes, persistent is key in life. And if you do meet someone like that, please let me know cause I’m kind of curious how someone like that can exist. Okay for safety reasons maybe you should not do that. What I am trying to say is, you get to decide your mother. 

It’s maybe too late now that you all grown up, but everyone needs a mother, no matter how old you are, how many mistakes you made, everyone need somebody who loves them as you are. Don’t blame your parents or life for how things turn out they way that it did. You would only go downhill if you did that. Instead you can make a powerful little thing called  a choice, and live your life the way you want to. I know I make it like it’s so easy. I don’t know, life is complicated I guess. I could never imagine if you grew up with a messed up mother who sexually abused you or mentally tortured you. Life isn’t fair sometimes. I hope you pull it through in the end. Maybe I can be your mother if no one else want to. Not that I have a great parenting skills or something. I can barely motivate myself to study. But I think you’ll do just fine and hope that you can find your mother.

Guitar is My Friend

by: Vincent Lew

I remember the reason that I choose to play guitar. I was 14, at that age, I am fanatical with a singer and I admire her very much, Taylor Swift, who has billions of loyal fans. She is the reason why I’m having two guitars right now. I am obsessed with every song that she wrote, and it cause me to refuse listening to other singers’ songs. I can say that, I’m growing up with her and her songs inspire my whole teenage years. At that time, I hope that I can play every song that she composed with her favourite musical instrument which is guitar. Then, I bought my very first guitar when I was 16.

At the outset, I learned playing guitar through my teacher, Youtube. I struggled as all the guitar beginners, frustrations bursting my head. I kept practicing, watching guitar tutorials until I have learned the basic, how to play chords and how to strum. From this learning process, I know that it all comes with the dedication and practice make perfect. After I have the basic skills about guitar, I spent 3 hours per day to learn about music and improve my hands flexibility. Gradually, I listen to different kind of songs. Undeniably, every goal has its cost, it always causes pain to my fingertips after I practice guitar after a long time. However, satisfaction always over the pain.

Days by days, songs by songs, I can see that I’m becoming an intermediate guitarist, I bought a second guitar with my own money. Since that day, I start to improve my guitar skill by memorize every single note on the guitar fret by my left hand and manipulate different advanced strumming pattern by my right hand. I remember that the very first complete arranged song that I can play is ‘Long live’ by my idol. Because of this song’s lyrics, melody and harmony, my life has been motivated.

Now, in UMP, I am recruited as a guitarist by a music band, Utopia which is formed by my dear pianist roommate. At there, I meet new friends with unique music talent, I learned a lot of music theory from them. Then, we have performed in many events that held in this university without receiving any payment, because our music band’s purpose is to spread the love and enthusiasm towards music. I’m glad for joining this band and guitar makes me indispensable in this band.

Without guitar, I am nothing.

Music

by: Putri Nur Shahida

In every corner of the world, the people listen to music. Music has an explicit meaning in many people’s lives. Music has influenced me in different ways and has always been a part of my life since early children years.

Music is a very important factor to many people in the world today. People may use music as a therapy and comfort. Music is considered as one of the two most precious gifts from God. There are so many things that people cherish about music. Music is made for the enjoyment of people of every age. In my adolescent years, I have used music in helping others out but I feel three things are prominent in the sound of music. Three aspects reflect my image of music such as relaxation of the soul, creativity of the mind and connection of others.

One aspect that is prominent in music is relaxation for the soul. First and foremost, relaxation is a motivation in people’s lives today. Various may encounter forest sounds, ocean sounds, and rain sounds. Relaxation can help many people in the stressful world today and it helps loosen muscles in your body. Calming music can help people clear their mind on a brain boggling day. I always pick out my favourite sounds out of the song and focus on that one sound. Often when people do this, it helps them focus on a tranquil sound and it keeps their mind off of the dilemmas they had that day.

When people listen to music, some may have a favourite instrument that they like to listen to. Various types of music will have a variety of instruments, ranging from flugelhorn, trumpet, bass, drums, guitar and saxophone. All of these instruments are key factors in music today. People may have a favourite instrument and go to a store and buy music just from that instrument. Today more and more people are turning to instrumental music to help relieve stress from their body after a hard working day.

In the nutshell, music is very influential and has become part of life to some people. 

I'm Looking for a Song

by: Zaim Sakeri

I'm looking for a song,
A music that ease my heart,
Ease my burden and you&.

I'm looking for a song,
A soothing melody for my mind,
Emptying my mind from ur problems

I'm looking for a song,
A heartbroken song,
For a broken heart.

I'm looking for a song,
That slipped into the crevices of time,
Included in the soul.
So that your love,
flowing immortal.

Music I heard

by: Azmi Ibrahim

Music I heard with you was more than music,
And bread I broke with you was more than bread,
Now that I am without you, all is desolate,
All that was once so beautiful is dead.

Your hands once touched this table and thuis silver,
And I have seen your fingers hold this glass,
These things do not remember you, beloved,

And yet your touch upon them will not pass.

For it was in my heart that you moved among them,
And blessed them with your hands and with your eyes,
And in my heart they will remember always,
They knew you once, beautiful and wise.

Real Melody

by: H.N. Alia

It is a lovely melody
You find a calming way when you put in it
Your mind to it
Every beats of the sound
Can make you dance and dance
It take your whole life to the fantasy
It is just you and your world caught in the music

Say you go through the darkest of days
Listen to it, feel it the pleasure
You got no pressure as it makes you feel better
Turn on the volume of the sounds
Whenever you feel down
Somewhere in the crowd or even in your emptiness
Till your heart feels the rhythm
And your fingers feel alive

Throughout the day and night
The tune keeps streaming in your mind
Running in your blood
Moving in your veins
With the real melody
It brings 4 seasons in your life
With every beats that you count
Yet the music ends
Hopefully your pain also will go away

Music

by: Siti Nur Ain

Moment of solitude
in cold day
there is a tone in the heart
one non-stop

Still remembered
echoing nature
with a smile I felt
listen
what I want to hear

The songs
song from pulse route

Take it feeling
filling out beautiful in the day
life without bored
a dream that runs

Heart wish
go like the wind
and like cold air
can feel it

This music belongs to all
there is no tax
to hear it
all free.

The Importance of Music in My Life

by: Nivishan a/l Naliah

Music can be the most important and powerful things of anyone's life who loves to listen or play music and know its importance in their life. But before that, did you know what is music? Basically, music is a combination of sound and silence moments. The persons that listen and play music will never easily give up on the life. Most of the person that likes to listen to the music they want to relaxing and distressing they mind or motivates them self. As we can see many people like to play and listen to music on many occasions or events.

Some people in this world like to use to listening music in their all time such as school, university, office, home and etc. It's because can keep away from all the problems and give solutions to the problem. Nowadays, in some companies they will play music in the offices in order to keep their worker's mind fresh, peaceful, bring positive, concentrate thoughts because it can help to increase their employees' performance. Besides that, way also can the employees to get new ideas for works.

Next, the reason that I too loved music was when I was child at a house my father will always like to listen music at the house. He likes to listen to slow music from morning to night. Basically, I don’t have any idea about musical compositions, but I generally like to listen music whenever I travel or during my study time. On weekends, my all family member will rest at house by listening to music because my father always said that listening to music is good. Furthermore, when I listen to music the music will touch my soul and spirit and maker me realize that I can solve any problem as long I me patient and give me some support.

Finally, music is a very powerful and as ability to convey messages to all sorts of emotion without telling and asking anything to anyone. In some country music as be used a tool to motivate they citizen in many ways. Music is a voiceless however, it tells everything and shares all the problems more than the human being. Music as be used to inspiring and promoting nature which increases the concentration power of the human by avoided all the negative thoughts.

In the nut shall music is the thing which helps us in re-memorizing our good memories of the past with our loved ones and dear ones. Besides that, there are many different types of music this world that we can listen and there are drawbacks and guidelines. When we listen to music its can bring back our good memorise that in our heart and mind. There is a word that said that “music is the alcohol for the soul ”. Being inspired, I also started learning and playing guitar on my free time the hope would be a good music player a day.

Music is Part of Our Life

by: Ung Wei Qin

Music means a lot to us,
Music is the joy to our lives,
Music is the painkiller,
Music is the bond between humans,
Music is the rainbow of our lives,
Music is everything to us.

A world without music,
Will be a world with living dead,
No ways to express internal feeling,
No songs to sing to,
No rhyme to dance to,
World then will just be black and white.

Benefits of Music Therapy

by: Syahir

Music are not something strange or something to hear by the people but it is can found anywhere in around the world. Everyone love to hear music with different type of music genre such as pop, rap, jazz and etc. Now most people in the world like to hear the K-Pop or J-Pop music from the East Asian country. If you like music, you know it can make important different in how you are feeling. But we might be surprised to learn about the different music can make for the people who are stress, depression, or who are anxious because they are sick. For those kind of people, music can be their one of method to recovery them. Did anyone know about the music therapy? The music therapy is often used to improve or repair mental and emotional health, it might help improve the quality life of the person.

The benefits of the music therapy is music therapy may help some patient who is fighting depression, according to a report published in 2008.The participants receiving music therapy were more likely to see a decrease in depression symptoms compared to those who did not receive music therapy. According to the report, patients appeared to experience the great benefits when therapists used theory based on the music therapy techniques, such as painting to music, improvised singing and create new music lyrics. The patients will imagine or rewind their sweet memory with family or the event, so it might create the smile on the patient’s face.

Next, the therapy may help ease stress in pregnancy, according to a 2008 study of 236 healthy pregnant women. Then it might can be more relax to the pregnant women due to the beautiful art of the music.  Compared to a control group, the 116 study participants who received music therapy showed significantly greater reductions in stress, anxiety, and depression. The music therapy involved listening to a half -hour of soothing music twice daily for two weeks. In a research report published in 2009, investigators found that listening to music may also benefit patients who experience severe stress and anxiety because of having coronary heart disease. The report included two studies on patients treated by trained music therapists. Results showed that listening to music had a beneficial effect on blood pressure, heart rate, respiratory rate, and pain in people with coronary heart disease because they feel freedom and like release all the problem that they had against all the day in their entire life.

Moreover, therapy may help improve communication skills in children with autistic spectrum disorder, according to a review published in 2006. However, the review's authors note that the included studies were of "limited applicability to clinical practice" and that "more research is needed to examine whether the effects of music therapy are enduring." Today children like communicate with each other with starting or ask the song that they like to hear. For the autism’s patient more improve their memorising about words or talk by listing the music because if they heard the music, they may feel happy.  Research suggests that music therapy may offer a number of benefits for people coping with cancer. For instance, the therapy has been shown to reduce anxiety in patients receiving radiation therapy, and it has helped ease nausea and vomiting resulting from high-dose chemotherapy To calm down the patients not by strong medicine right now but can use the music may help them to calm down.

In conclusion, the music have a lot of benefits to people nowadays which how they conduct or the music for the right a way.

Wonder?

by: Alia Farahanin

I always wonder how strong
someone can be?
From their smile,
The laugh,
The way a single person can speak
and give happiness to people around them.
I wonder,
have people ever notice?
The tremble in their voice,
The dull in their eyes,
The pain in their laugh,
I wonder if people ever realise
the hurt that they hide,
I wonder how can someone be so tough,
And I always wonder,
Why I'm not like them?

Tears

by: Kiriyadhatshini.G

Every fond drop of yours draws a splash of sparks in me,
Every fatal drop of yours creates a storm of grudge in me,
Every frail drop of yours raises a spate of fire in me.

Flower

by: Kiriyadhatshini.G

Enchanting scent that breeze through the air,
Riding along the anthers away,
Counting the time to bloom with a spell,
Striving for destiny far from the grave.

Music

by: Kiriya Datshini

Breaking through the sorrow and fear,
Diving into the grasp of your notes,
Denoting emotions along your lines,
Blowing myself into the chant of your rhythm.

Music is Feeling

by: Elle

Music is feeling
Music is emotion

Heavy metal - depression
Rock - anger
Ballad - love
Pop - joy
Smooth jazz - tranquility
Indie rock - rejection
Sadcore - grief

But
Just like feeling
It is always misinterpreted.

Hey Little Brain

by: Hidayah Mazelan

Hey little brain,

How are you doing today?

I think I'm doing fine,

I hope you are doing great

Hey little brain,

Today I feel so lost,

Maybe you can come to me,

And give me some of your thoughts

Hey little brain,

Life is so tough today,

My chest was in so much pain,

I wish it soon would go away

Hey little brain,

Tonight I cannot sleep,

You seem to love thinking,

It's too loud, so please

Hey little brain,

Why are you being like this?

How come I see worms and things,

When others see foods like cookies?

Hey little brain,

You're quiet today,

Are you leaving me?

Can you please stay?

Hey little brain,

I feel so alone,

I guess you have left me,

Like everyone had done

Hey little brain,

It's been a while,

Are you doing great?

Because honestly, I'm nowhere fine.

Lost

by: Hanifah A.

I didn't know who to blame, the nice psychiatrists or me.

They were being too nice and talked too much.

Shut up.

I don't want you to keep advertising this or that and tell me that my bipolar might get worse.

You asked if you could help.

But ended up running away too.

This isn't 1950.

You shouldn't ask me that, you should not help if I don't want to be helped.

I don't want to be here.

I want to go home.

Or

Just let me drown

Until the color tastes bland,

Until I can see myself turned to black and white

And finally faded away

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