For the beauty child in Shinjuku
Living in Japanese country
I feel myself wrapped with so many greetings
I don’t know what the greetings mean
But I feel myself laid down in a so peaceful world
All people look so care of me
Do not let me to be fallen and hurt
I then feel like a small thing
I bought in a small store of a town
And being wrapped in the so beautiful paper
I feel myself have a dignity
I remember my Javanese world and people
We also used to greet other with some polite words
But we never succeed in wrapping things in so closed way
We wrap in a looser one in order to open every time we want
Living in Japanese country
I feel myself being in the so perfect and complete world
I cannot differentiate any more the word and the heart
So I may get both of them or entrapped in the empty wrap
*Seri lama puisi tentang Jepang, The Untouchable World of Japan: Some Lyrical and and Reflective Poems