Poen: A vision

A Vision[1]

                                                            - By Kamal Raj Sigdel (M. A. 2^nd Year, T. U.)

 

The holes over the cardiac walls

Those broken pieces from distant missiles pierced.

Meekness peeped through the holes

A sinister spirit that looms over the village

Some bottomless figures swayed by intermittent air

Swarm the haunted solitude and again disappear

Yet again, the slender Hope creeps above

With its numb and sticky tendrils

Caressing over the rough wall

That basks in the snow-fueled bonfire.

 

 

The dim rays passing through the holes

Vanish out into the darkness till

At the hearth, the red-eyed cat coils watching

The last ember turned into ash.

 

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[This is a nightmarish vision of a frozen youth in a frozen country whose hope of peace is shattered when every time the so-called "peace process" fails – a psychic experience to be alive in a war-torn nation.]

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[1] First poem of the 2050-2060 collection – "Bir Gorkhali Defunct"