To The Place Where Memory Returns Poem by Maria Sudibyo

Do you still want to live in the place where everything destroyed?
Your home is gone
Your reason is stolen
Living like a roaming refugee
Waking in the morning with trail of tears in your eyes
With nightmares keep haunting your days
A fleeting shadow walking on the earth
And yet you longing for a sanctuary
Let's return
To the place where memory first remembered
Because God has given so much to make you survive
Let's dream together
In the place where memory start spreading
Because it is a reminder that we have lived here
And once loved for each other

Do you not have anything left to fear anymore?
Your world is crumbled
Your rules are broken
Coldly you refuse to feel anything
Strengthen yourself with indifferent face
You lost connection with everything around you
Pretend to be unaffected by the changes that happen rapidly
And yet you keep the hope inside
Let's turn back
To the place where memory begins
Let's share the pain
And we could go wherever we want
Don't you know it's hard to see
When your heart is almost blind with tears