Everyone salutes on your Preanger beauty

They admire on your thick Northern nose
They get jealous on your sharp Egyptian eyes

I saw the moon smiled to you and dimmed her beauty
I heard the sky has wanted you but outreached by your compassion to my poverty

Astri, you’re a saint;
your silence is so hard and biting
yet your voice is so soft and inviting

So please accept this work of shame
My true confession that lies down beneath my humble face
Love it’s not to be untold or to be denied, it’s a verdict of humanity

Although you never ask for protection
A beauty never asks for attention

(Poem written by Kus to Astri in 2017)