Rudra Adhikari
By your beauty,
I was haunted.
You reigned in my heart.
Like you,
I was also unconscious,
I was about to drown.
When I was swimming from one side,
I saw you swimming from the other side.
Then,
You changed your form and color,
You showed your true self.
Seeing your true form,
I am now aware.
I don’t know—
Can you get up and go, or not?
May the roar of repentance burn you.
After leaving the past behind,
I am healed.
I am at peace.
Now,
I am lighter,
Flying in the sky.
(Rudhra Adhikari is from Itahari-19, Sunsari, and now lives in London.)
