FURTHER AND FURTHER by : Isbedy Stiawan Z.S.

AND SO you write of my journey

into the still-secret time

before dawn

before dawn

burns

- truly like a moan –

is it you flashing by

leaving the dark behind

forgetting the home

that was once your refuge?

now further and further

you lead me by the hand

deep into the forest

to the farthest estuary?

I am weary

although salt water spreads

between the sea and the river

every autumn

am i ailing?

2007

=ISBEDY STIAWAN Z. S.=