Trudging up
Forlorn in the lethal frozen slopes
just a few meters beneath
the
summit of my dreams
I
bowed down with exhaustion,
in a cold, gritty wind.
Exhausted,
with hope-tipped
mountaineering sticks in hands,
I wondered about my ancestor’s
life
behind the blue door of the sky
cabinets
and saw clothes of my ancestors
fluttering
on a half broken clotheslines in
the sky.
My vision slowly distorted,
an attitude sickness
or maybe more.
I coughed thrice, and suddenly
the spirit of my long lost dreams
in the canyons of the realism
rose from their siesta
and danced
around me shouting brisk words
of encouragement.
“Don’t give up, it’s only
a mere altitude headache
you will get over it,”
they kept on chanting.
I stood shakily
and found myself
trudging up
my dreams
gravelly trails
once again.
Bhuwan Thapaliya is a poet writing in English from Kathmandu, Nepal. He works as an economist and is the author of four poetry collections. His poems and articles have been widely published in journals and periodicals such as Kritya, Foundling Review, FOLLY, The Journal of Expressive Writing, Trouvaille Review, Pendemics Literary Journal, Pandemic Magazine, The Poet, Litehouse, Valient Scribe, Strong Verse, Jerry Jazz Musician, Taj Mahal Review, Poetry Life and Times, VOICES( Education Project), Longfellow Literary Project, Poets Against the War, Mahmag.org( Magazine of arts and humanities),InnerVisions by Jay, The Sound of Poetry Review, among many others. Thapaliya has read his poetry and attended seminars in venues around the world, including South Korea, India, the United States, Thailand, Cambodia, and Nepal.
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