Jakarta, 11 January 2008
How funny this life is
This 28 year old girl
Sitting alone in a fancy 5 star hotel business lounge
Enjoying a fine glass of red wine and a cigarette
Looking out the window to a view of a city she grew up in
Writing a report trying to help this God forsaken country
Who would have thought this girl is me now
In this funny world
People would have thought that I have made it
I have become someone important
With success written all over my forehead
An Indonesian girl living in a foreign country
Earning a good living and going somewhere with her life
Who would have thought I would be this girl
And yes, I am still a girl
As the successful looking business man next to me pointed out
She is young and unmarried
Chasing her career first before anything else
But what is that something else
Family? Kids?
Normality?
Happiness?
I wonder if anyone who sees me here
Ever thought that I am here because I have nowhere else to be
No one to be with
No home to come back to
The night city lights now sparkle in front of me
The vast world is out there still
And I am here, with my wine, cigarette, laptop computer…
Alone
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