What is a drowning person losing?
There is all conflict in the world.
Sometimes, the critic is there to
Lead you astray before you live
Are you aware?
I would keep the sensibility alive instead and be silent
And still be called mighty Annapurna* for lifetime.
Those who wish to mount me, can place their soft steps
On my hard mountain ground.
Your eyes should be like lake Rara*,
If you were to study
The capped mountain of my soul.
For, the soul needs to be reflected
If it is not seen as a thing and is formless.
Adherence to others
Comes as a forceful negation today.
Life is all unique to everyone.
It is always a perception to understanding
That makes meaning for life.
Living is all that it takes to die.
Before thinking to lose why don’t we foster instead
Like a sacred thread hung as a meaning.
*Annapurna is the tenth highest mountain of the world situated in the Annapurna mountain range of Gandaki province, north-central Nepal.
*Rara is the biggest fresh water lake in the Nepalese Himalayas located in Mugu district of Karnali Province, Nepal.
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Sushant Thapa
Bio: Sushant Thapa is a Nepalese poet who holds a Master’s degree in English literature from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India. He has published three books of poetry, namely: The Poetic Burden and Other Poems (Authorspress, New Delhi, 2020), Abstraction and Other Poems (Impspired, UK, 2021) and Minutes of Merit (Haoajan, Kolkata, 2021). His poems have been published in Sindh Courier, The Kathmandu Post, Trouvaille Review, Lothlorien Poetry Journal, Journal of Expressive Writing, Dissident Voice, Harbinger Asylum, As It Ought To Be Magazine, Litehouse, My Republica, New York Parrot, International Times, Literary Yard, The Beatnik Cowboy, Dumpster Fire Press, and Impsipred among many. He lives in Biratnagar, Nepal.