By Inggit Putria Marga

Farewell to the window

staring at both happiness
and pain

in the sky’s very same glow

The one who left,
has hardened in the sea

The one who remained,
now meditates in the forest

While the one who is silent
is struck by the breaths
that rise and fall
in the breasts of hope and memory

Translations by John McGlynn