MY LONG JOURNEY

Akhmad Cahyo Setio

How I still have to count the numbers

The number between my long journeys

There are numbers of my life

A long journey across the shores of the ocean

The traces of travel that leave footprints

Two, the waves have returned their tracks to the good current

Between three and six there is four and five

Four is you who always paints rainbow colors on the ceiling for me

Fill every empty glass with your beautiful cool face

Knitting every thread until it becomes a comforter that hugs me

Now fulfill your promise to me

And hopefully the past I still send to you through the corners of my nights

And five is my other laugh, my other sad, my other happy

The one there I want to share about me

They are beautiful flowers that I strung, cheerful smiles that I frame

Let me keep it on the walls of my memories

These are the remaining six among the three long journeys

Let me recalculate about the time that has passed

Because there are still so many poems that I want to write

So many hopes I want to express

So many prayers that I want to say

So many faces I want to smile

Lord, please

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About The Poet

Akhmad Cahyo Setio is a literary activists of Tanah Bumbu Indonesia. He had participated in various literary activities locally and internationally. His poem include to the locally and internationally poem anthology there are, Amaravati Poem Prism 2018 India, the best choice poem in international peom anthology “Just Love Me” in Nepal India 2019, in international Malays fertival Singapore 2018, international poem anthology of Palestine solidarity, in Malaysia 2018 and other have been publish with Indonesian author. Can be contacted on fb; Akhmad Cahyo Setio, email; Akgmadcahyosetio@gmail.com

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Setu, April 2022