Radhika Kalpit
What happens if we fall in love?
Do the volcanoes erupt
or
The Earth gulps human civilization
Or
The nine planets collide
and blast the constellations?
Do the seasons stop changing ?
Do the flowers stop blooming
or
The nightingale stops singing
Or
The Garden of Eden turns into a cactus-beach ?
Do the wind stops blowing
Or
Rivers stop flowing?
Does the civilization reverse?
Or
Be the human species turns defensive?
I do just have a question to you.
Have you vowed like Bhisma
not to fall in love with any woman?
You act like Atlas busy holding the sky
you act like Shiva with poison on his throat
so that you can’t kiss me for fear of poisoning .
If we look into each other,
You act as if the universe would lose its gravity in no time
thunderstorm follows in no time
And the Earth disappears in no time.
Oh my Cupid
Do not let your Psyche dive into desolation
Do not let our love live in suffocation.
Let it go if the second Mahabharata starts
let the second Trojan War be fought
let the civilization come to an end.
We are mere dust particles
we refuse to be defined by any articles.
How can we take responsibility of rotation and revolution?
How can we be responsible for any compulsion and revulsion?
Come on, my Adam,
Let’s go beyond this
not losing our body and brain.
Let’s feel true love out of these gutters and drains.
Trust me:
I will make you be.
Trust me
I will make you see.
The Earth won’t stop revolving round.
The Sun won’t stop glazing around.
Come on, my Adam
Let’s taste the forbidden fruit
and be mortal.
Let’s feel our destiny
We are not here
To be immortal.
[Kalpit is a Nepali poet. Her collection Barafka Koilaharu has recently entered the Nepalese literary market.]