Sometimes
Poem by John RC Potter
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Sometimes, I miss you. I can’t forget you. You’re not far away because I can never forget Indonesia. I remember one day we went to a mountain. This mountain is too high, you said to me. You can’t climb; foreigners can’t do it, turn around, go back! But we walked there, to the top of the mountain. Me and you, together. At the top, you took my hand; we looked at West Java below us. Later I thought about your words: the mountain that I had to climb that day was you. But I still miss you...always.
John RC Potter is an international educator and gay man from Canada, living in Istanbul. His stories, poems, essays, and reviews have appeared in a range of magazines, most recently in The Serulian (“The Memory Box”, September 2023). The author has over a dozen upcoming publications in the coming months, including an essay in The Montreal Review.