Jakarta: Night

Rating:	★★
Category:	Books
Genre:	Literature & Fiction
Author:	Sitor Situmorang

At the corner of Kebon Sirih
And Thamrin
I stopped. And looked up
At the neon lights
Blinking on rooftops.
Metropolis!

I freeze under the streetlights
The traffic lights
I think, I am
This is Jakarta
Not Hong Kong
Or Lake Toba

I left that
on a boat
one clear morning
long ago

Now
It's late
Time to go home.