Sameen Shakya
Torn tundras. Tumultuous times.
Toil and trouble. Unpack the mind.
See what spillage has leaked within
from eyes, ears and mouth. Even skin.
Eyes that see atrocities made flesh,
then unmade. Ears that hear silence
and cackles. Mouths that want to speak
but can’t. And skin that cakes into wounds.
Wounds are what we all have in common.
Yet each day, I see two types of people.
One who picks their wounds for all
to see, and one who picks others’ for fun.
We’ll kill each other soon enough.
Some will kill themselves before even that.
These tumultuous times will end, and
the world will turn to tundras, all torn up.
[Sameen Shakya’s poems have been published in Alternate Route, Cosmic Daffodil, Hearth and Coffin, Roi Faineant and Thin Veil Press, to name a few. Born and raised in Kathmandu, Nepal, he moved to the USA in 2015 to pursue writing. He earned an Undergraduate Degree in Creative Writing from St Cloud State University and traveled the country for a couple of years to gain a more informal education. He returned to Kathmandu in 2022 and is currently based there.]
