The Bajang Child Swinging the Moon (110)

KOMPAS/CAHYO HERUNANTO

Later Sukrosono is also immersed in meditation. He asks, who owns this beautiful garden? To whom can he ask to take the garden away? The garden does not belong to anyone. It even wants to find an owner. And the garden feels, only love can have it. Therefore only love can take it. Sukrosono then speaks with love. "I don't want to take you for myself, but for my brother." "I don't care who you want to give it to. You can give me to anyone, as long as you give me with love." And to him that love then says, "If you want to take me, you must be willing to give yourself, your body and soul, even your life."

All of the flowers in the garden suddenly bloom, and a voice is heard, "If you accept love, you will be led to an end you can't guess." And Sukrosono is startled, why am I reminded again that I have to be sincere in giving love to my older brother Sumantri? He then sees the bees flying over the flowers. They search for the pistils, but fail to find them. The bees drift away in silence, making Sukrosono ask, why in such a beautiful garden these flowers have lost their pistils? In those flowers Sukrosono feels loneliness in silence. The loneliness continues to follow him, asking to be met with someone who can hug it. And this loneliness then drowns him in deeper meditation.

Read also:

> The Bajang Child Swinging the Moon (109)

Immersed in meditation, without realizing it Sukrosono has been led into the night. The night is bright, because it shines again with the giant heads of a thousand moons. And on this clear night, it rains like jewels of the moon. In the branches of the trees, the cataka birds are dancing merrily. Flying, and voicing a song of satisfied longing. This is the night when the cataka birds can drink the moon water, which he has waited for. Hearing the happy voice of the cataka birds, Sukrosono becomes even more convinced that Sriwedari, this beautiful garden is a loneliness that wants to go with him. He is no longer waiting, he immediately summons the moon giants so that they will come to help him bring Sriwedari Garden to Maespati.

From the sky a thousand moons descend like a waterfall. As soon as they touch the earth, the moons become giants again. In an instant the atmosphere darkens. A frightening sound roars from the edges of Sriwedari Garden. The giants shout together, calling for the ruler of the night when there is no moon. With all their might, the thousand giants break into Sriwedari Garden from the peak of Mount Nguntara. Slowly the garden rises up, creeping into the sky. The leaves of the trees wave, accompanied by the rustling sound of the branches. This beautiful garden immediately floats in the sky, and immediately the atmosphere becomes brightly lit, because the giant heads return to being a thousand moons in the height.

Sukrosono is amazed to see the beautiful garden fly. He is once worried, what if the flowers fall, the leaves fall, and the branches break, and the birds vanish, before the garden reaches Maespati? It is understandable because the moon giants fly as fast as lightning, shooting like a mighty wind. When Sukrosono is hit by such doubts, Sriwedari Garden suddenly shrinks and diminishes, then completely disappears, turning into a bud of Wijayakusuma flower. Because it is very small, in the middle of the vast sky, the bud of Wijayakusuma cannot be seen, if the flower is not lifted by the giants of a thousand moons. The flower that night seems to shine, even though it is only a bud in the middle of the night, because of the light of the moon.