Love Poem: From My Journal: Trains
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Written by: Aan Mansyur

From My Journal: Trains

(I have three trains 
in my diary pages)

Solo, 14/01/1994

I met train a week 
before you will not meet me 
anymore

I was really nervous to know it 

you ever told me: many pickpocket,
they know how the new-ones
spell their names and shake hand,
also where the wallet hidden 

in my town, you know, there is no rail, 
but I want to find you most

you said another time,
"Do you know Balapan Station song?
I live no so far from there."

Yogyakarta, 23/01/2000

in front of ticket room, few seconds 
before train close its doors
and go, in a rush I want  
wear you a thick hug 
as sweater for rainy days
which is bring influenza 
and amnesia

Makassar, 30/08/2005

time used to be a train window 
everything pass as thunderclap
outside that window, I couldn’t 
see where your face are 

then time become train rail 
send back all people who went away

unfortunately, I had left the station.