I let you go, like the waves rolling on the shore, and a little boy who lost his footwear, crying scared to go back to her mother where he had lost the gifts.
I let you go, like a couple of ashy Prinia birds dancing among the bamboo branches sing loudly in the breeding season, build nests and lay eggs, but replaced by the eggs of cuckoos that grew and were cared for with love.
I let you go, like cities that have long since died the quiet and lonely and people left and no one ever came back to occupy.
I let you go, like the paintings of pain from wounds that bleed and lose displayed at art exhibitions, and everyone was amazed to see.
I let you go, like a memory in a photo album from loved ones first, yellowed full of blotches of teardrops, worn-out dusty and looks real.
I let you go, like an angry poet in front of half-finished poems who have been lost for words for a long time to be reassembled.
I let you go, like falling rain, and a boy running around looking for shelter with wounds on his right hand holding tightly to the thorny rose.
I let you go, like a book and sad stories which has been left for a long time after reading all night.
Once again, I let you go, as a most perfect poem, that I have written, from the remnants of memories in the head.
Indonesia, 20th October 2021 Arif Aditya Abyan Nugroho