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A Letter for X
By M.Arief
Wibowo
220807
X,
I’m so sad
today to admit,
That
there’s indeed a power stronger than love
He who
could untie the dear feeling between 2 close hearts
So short
they were always,
the moments I could
meet you
But all the
memories I’ve acquired of you
Prove too
remaining to forget
That first
time you invited me to go
And the
other time you took my arm and held it between yours
You’ve
poured water
To the dead
rose underlying within my heart
Do you ever
realise
How strong
my feeling had grown to you eversince?
You once
stole my soul
My breath
Everything!!
My heart could
not escape you
Nor could
my mind abandon reminiscing about you
With my
messages
I always tried to greet you
That you sometimes barely replied
And thus always brought me angry
Once it had
been thought by me
that later I’d like
to pronounce
this feeling to you
But I’m
sorry
for today I have to
cancel love
I’ve seen a
mountain before us
much too high to
climb
I’ve seen a
river hinder us
much too wide to
cross
There’s
indeed a force more powerful than love, Dear
atrocious,
that love itself
has to genuflect to it
So let me
cancel all this feeling to you
Since I
want not to become yours
beginning to enter
your life
illuminating it for
a while
yet later ending it
with loutish words
that would ruin
your heart
Truly,
I don’t
want to see tear shed
By a girl as sweet as you
So let me
cancel love
Let me
unbind myself off you
And be your
mere companion
Oh any
other guy!
Please
enter her heart
cherish it
redden it
With all
the colours you could bring
Serve this
dearest Lady of all hearts
the finest you
could
Yet at the
same time, oh Lady
Please let
me take my leave
All my
traces, you may erase
But not
those memories of us
Let them
kept
as nice stories of
our past
within our hearts
Within my
life,
I shall take
pursuit
of my heart’s true
happiness
thither, somewhere
afar
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