Gopi Sapkota
One day,
The grandson of my sweetheart
Will do his PhD on my poetry
When he will be busy on research on my love poems
He will find –
How I was separated from my beloved
By chance, if my beloved happens to be alive until then
She will come to know
What her grandson is studying!
And the grandson will proudly say:
‘Granny, you know?
I am trying to find out
Who Gopi’s beloved was.’
Then, my hoary beloved
Will enter her room
Take a note out of her old cupboard
And switch off the light
In the lonely hour.
[Gopi Sapkota (b. 1972), a poet and playwright from Nepa, is an MA in English literature. He writes mostly in Nepali and occasionally in English. He has eight books of poems and plays to his credit, including a collection of English poems A Suicide Note. One of the most influential playwrights of Nepal, Sapkota was the founder director of Street Theatre Group back in 1992. He has directed dozens of plays. Also a writer of children’s literature, he co-edited Sunkeshra, a popular children’s magazine in the Nepali language. He also served as Secretary of the Society of Nepali Writers in English from 2001 to 2007.]