What the Wind Cannot Carry

Some words refuse to vanish
They stay, not in memory—
 but in the ache beneath forgetting
I buried your shadow
 in a place without ground
Even now, the soil won’t settle
What is grief,
 but the persistence of a question
 no time has ever answered?
And in the hush before waking,
I still feel it—
 the shape of your absence
 curling like smoke
 inside the ruins of my breath


– Padang, 2023

Ardiansyah.DS was not born of words, but of pause—the space between two unfinished sentences. Rooted in Curup (Rejang) and shaped in Minangkabau, he studied literature at Andalas University (class of 1996). He writes not to explain the world, but to make peace with how it changes, unannounced. His poetry does not seek understanding, but offers quiet traces of loss, longing, and silence—reminders that light does not need to blind to be real, and that absence can be a form of presence waiting to be named.

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