Saturday, July 22, 2006

SIN

your white face
outside my window
behind my back
since dawn

it has always been thus

the soul
footprints in the mud
of the heart

words
echoing in infinity
of space

my hand
trembling as I rip a poem
out of thin air

your eyes
my last memory of you
burning inside me

your face
white outside my window
behind my back since dawn

cripples my arms

Subagio Sastrowardojo

(From Simphoni, Jakarta, Pustaka Jaya, 1971, p. 18.)

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