S
A L I
(The
Story of a Woman Dani *)
By:
Dewi
Linggasari
*
A not for my dad, with love
"So,
you fulfil my request?" Kugara approaching, holding hands tightly Lapina.
"I
do not know Kugara", Lapina be confused, she looked as if a rabbit were
pushed in a corner, waiting a few seconds before the hunters catch and eat her.
"No
you're confused, you must submit to customs. I'll pay you a pig. If you refuse,
then society will be subject to customary ", Kugara seemed excited, he
sure has won his will, as customary certainly defend him. He continues to stick
to a helpless young girl, so Lapina no power again refused.
When finally Kugara pay her twenty pigs, Lapina was silent. She did not speak for a job with it. But she was bewildered, a voice
told her to rebel, but she was too young for her rebellion against tradition
that has been prevailing since ancient times. She did not have any strength,
attractiveness as a teenage girl to have backfired, she must marry a man she
did not want. Lapina could never understand why peoples can act like that and
why did she have to do.
Lapina
remained silent until the wedding day arrives. Twenty pigs given as a dowry
later visited her in the dark Kugara honai every night demanding their rights.
Lapina could not understand when the veil lifted. The stories that are
whispered among teenage girls turned out to be a moment of confusing, bizarre,
and filled with mist. Lapina seemed unaware of the treatment Kugara, or she did ever wanted to know it. Darkness in the honai have reduced fear, because she
did not have to see the face Kugara being so close without distance. She never
felt as husband and wife, it is customary actors. Actors who have lost their
soul, eventual living sculpture.
Every
night when Kugara visited her in the honai. Lapina closed her eyes. There
jerking pain, because she lost the rights to freedom of self. Lapina wanted to
get away, but she did not know where to run. The room in the honai is too
narrow to circumvent traditional shackles. Every dark came, finally Lapina only
be surrendered. She felt herself soaring high into the sky and then slammed
into the bottom of the gorge without foundation. In a time not too long Lapina changed, she is no longer a wildflower
snaking in the valley breeze. She is just a rod that has been broken. Her face
was pale and her eyes as the language
was sufficient.
Lapina
increasingly heavy workload, she had to get up early, provide food for Kugara,
went into the garden while keeping Liwa, feed the pigs, and act as a wife.
Months later Lapina felt herself getting weaker and sickly. Nevertheless, she
had to go into the garden for the pigs and daily food.
One
morning Lapina could no longer get up, she was lying and kept vomiting. Her
stomach was nauseous, dizzy head, her face pale yellow. So many days until the
food supply runs out already, she should go back to tending to the garden and
pick it. Liwa seemed to understand difficulties Lapina, she quietly followed
and undemanding when Lapina him go into the garden with a weak body. Liwa help
Lapina work, few crops take home, Lapina
choose Liwa lay on the grass, under a tree. She deliberately back before dark
to avoid anything that feels odd in her life now.
So
many days, Lapina spending time in the garden to lay staring at the blue sky, she
understands the issues affecting their lives, but she was just too dumb to
answer the question. While Liwa only see Lapina with childish eyes.
Women that be her mother, now prefer to lie down on the grass with a bit of
garden produce. While a growing number of pigs to be fed. Until one-day Kugara
reprimand.
"You're
always a day in the garden, but why did you bring sweet potatoes just a little?" He
reprimanded Kugara silimo Lapina at the front door.
"Do
not you see, my body increasingly weak?" Lapina asked.
"I
have paid you a pig, you have to work for me and for the pigs", Kugara emphasized in his voice, he did not seem all that happy.
"It's
true, but the pigs are not made to be strong", Lapina threw the whole
weight noken to the floor and began honai busy turning wood. Sweet potatoes should
be cooked, if not Kugara will rant and it is not impossible to beat him.
"I
do not want to know, tomorrow you have to go home with garden produce more, if
not you'll know the result!" Kugara threatening, he passed away while
grabbing bananas ripe and chewed with relish.
After
the death Kugara, Lapina sit still, she began to feel no hatred clot in her
chest slowly. She was looking to shed hatred, but she did not have enough
courage to say so. Those eyes were grim and getting wet. Soon the dew had fallen.
"I'm
hungry Lapina," Liwa sound surprising Lapina. Women who became her
stepmother was wiping tears and immediately get sweet potatoes into the hot
ashes. "You eat first while waiting for the sweet banana ripe",
Lapina thrust two bunches of banana to Liwa and he was immediately immersed in
a cloud of smoke, curse her fate.
From
the outside honai thin smoke continued to move through the thatch roof, a sign
that in the mushroom-shaped house that had been stretched thread of life. A
woman has been paid to the pig, she should light a fire so sweet potatoes
cook and those who have paid the pigs can eat her trouble. So Lapina has to
keep working until he finally realized, no innocent little creatures lived in
her womb. Women who are married and no longer get dirty blood typically
experienced this sort of thing before finally giving birth to a child.
Lapina
was a young girl, but she should be ready to be a mother. Every day Lapina
belly getting bigger, her body is weakening, but no matter Kugara, Lapina must
continue to work in the garden, feeding the whole honai and pigs and split
firewood to birthday arrived. Lapina felt like the middle pick her death, type
the baby in the uterus was about to revolt from direct contact with life in the
real world. She has been feeling ill for a long day, and now the pain to the
most frightening situation. Lapina alone
in the woods, her body drenched in sweat. With a howl of a very long race that
split was sick. A baby boy was born, the blood gush. That said, blood flowing
from the womb of a mother who gave birth to eliminate the efficacy of the tools
stored in honai warring peoples. Therefore Lapina should give birth by herself,
away from silimo.
Liwa
Lapina welcomed with joy. Lapina laid the little bay in the camshaft, sticking
in her back. Lapina face can not hide the fatigue, she let Liwa holding a small
baby. With a pounding Lapina honai throwing herself on the floor and then
grabbed a wad of dry grass to accommodate the blood that was flowing from the
most secret parts of her body. Dusk fell in the increasingly chilly air. A
relative of the woman had lit firewood to warm the room in the honai, Lapina
asleep, and let go of any fatigue as the most thrilling moments in her life. She
has become a mother.
The
next day Lapina wake up with limp, as if he regretted the sun. If the night was
over, then she will be able to fall asleep and dream forever. The life of the
real world is too scary and he needs a place to hide. Lapina forced herself up
when she heard the cry of her baby. Like the other mothers she had to
breastfeed, so that his son stopped crying.
Kugara
came shortly afterwards with a frown on his face, when he saw the furnace in
honai not yet lit. His eyes wandered around the room to explore. Wrinkles on
the forehead of the man was gone when he got leftover sweet potatoes were
burned overnight. Without much asking Kugara grabbed sweet potatoes. But apparently dwindling supply
of sweet potatoes, whole honai will definitely empty if no woman was willing to
go to the garden to poke the sweet potatoes.
"I
know you just had a baby Lapina, but let you see our food supplies are running
low. If you do not go to the garden we will starve, "Kugara the
conversation.
"You
know I was still very weak, would not be able to replace temporary
job?" Lapina denied while breastfeeding her petite, she really felt pity
and compassion for the innocent children who have been born.
"Working
in the garden and foraging is none of your business. Sorry, I can not replace
you. If you do not immediately go into the garden in search of food, you will
know the consequence ", Kugara his imminent.
Instantly
Lapina increasingly resentful clot in her chest, sudden shortness of breath, and
hunting, wistful eyes instantly flashed. Load life obviously increasing. She
must marry Kugara as custom, the pigs are already owned as dowry, but she had
to feed the pigs every day, as well as the man who had paid him a dowry. When she
was growing weaker, because of pregnancy and childbirth she should keep working in
the garden. Now, she must also keep her child, which was not easy, and garden
work should continue. Lapina pull sighed heavily, she threw out the door
honai perspective, her lip a thick shake. Her face darkened.
Liwa
small events have continued to record in her mind with a strange feeling. Reason captures the unfairness of it, although she did not fully understand. Liwa
remembered the Aburah who dies with baby in her womb, because she must work and
work. Now, Lapina must continue to work with the new little baby was born. "What
happened to your life?" girl wonder in the heart. Her affection to the
growing Lapina, she did not want to lose Lapina as she never lost Aburah, she
was always to keep Lapina keep small babies.
Morning
when Lapina goes into the garden with the baby lying on the camshaft behind her
back, Liwa will continue to follow. While
Lapina working in the garden, then Liwa after her, so that little baby can live
in peace, free from insect wildlife. Liwa always found Lapina finished working
in the garden with a tired face and sweat dripping. She was no longer able to
speak, she seemed to be the centre keep a secret. Liwa is too childish to see
Lapina hearts content, but little heart she never stopped asking, is that the
fate of a woman? Is there some point she'll repetition of the same?
....to be continued....
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