{"id":1216,"date":"2025-06-12T13:54:55","date_gmt":"2025-06-12T13:54:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vinaya.com.np\/?p=5"},"modified":"2025-06-13T02:42:36","modified_gmt":"2025-06-13T02:42:36","slug":"poetry-eternal-sadness-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vinaya.com.np\/theword\/2025\/06\/12\/poetry-eternal-sadness-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Poetry: Eternal Sadness"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"46098212fc2f9bee8b0ca8ef084d6029\" data-index=\"1\" style=\"float: none; margin:10px 0 10px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-5781035789902986\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block; text-align:center;\"\r\n     data-ad-layout=\"in-article\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-5781035789902986\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"5291051281\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>This country<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Still warm with the blood of common people<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Spilled during the People\u2019s War<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Stands on the corpses<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Of murdered kings and prime ministers<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>People, old and young<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These and those<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wait for the emancipation<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With eternal sadness in their eyes<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And make stories, within grim fogs<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That there is no hope for the country<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Once cursed by a virtuous woman<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This country<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Survived wars and political scheming<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Throughout the written history of 1500 years<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But is haunted by the 16<sup>th<\/sup> century legend<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That a woman, whose courtier husband was murdered<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Had cursed that there is no hope for Nepal<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Buddha is mum<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He who preached about <em>ahimsha <\/em>and non-violence<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Witnessed deaths and killings<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Of men and women, children and teens<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During the decade of Nepalese Civil War<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The rivers swell and wash away settlements<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mountains and hills fall and bury villages<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Poverty stricken people<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Look at the Gods and Goddess expectantly<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Do they know, the deities just the wood, stone and metal?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The rocks at the Trishuli River<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Shore cave into the shore<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And devours the rafters<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Who belong to the another world<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mountaineers are lost<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Within the intricacies of the Everest and Annapurna<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the wildlife reserves and national parks<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rhinos and tigers move little farther<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Poor elephants<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They will have to carry the white man\u2019s burden again<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The country is throttled<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By the flood, by undesired happenings<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By the landslides, by political wrangling&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By earthquakes, by schemes and designs<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, the evening settles peacefully<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The day begins peacefully.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I, a piece of Nepal\u2019s children<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Come out to play with life<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Walk across rubbles, alongside corpses<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And avoid broken statues of Buddhist and Hindu deities<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The fang of loneliness<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Penetrates deep<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The eternal sadness everywhere.<\/p>\n<!--CusAds0-->\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; 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