Wealth

By taking myself out of

the eyes stuck in letters

the dreams filled with intelligence

and the heart soaked with the soul's sensitivity;

I spry my closed vision over

the streets of this city and the shadows lurching within it.

Some people have done their best deeds

by erecting walls unable to hide country’s vulgarity,

others have done equally good

by abandoning blocks of land here and there

amongst this crowd entangled with itself;

otherwise,

where would these many of ostrich people of

this country naked in all other forms

rush to micturate ?

I couldn't understand what did my head say;

but bent downward and started surfing

over the paper again.

Every day,

five hundred people pee

against those walls worth four hundred thousand rupees

and land blocks worth twenty million rupees each,

but, no one dare to spit in a thirty rupees book.

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(Translated from Nepali by the poet) ................................................................

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