Hira Akash
Attack our settlements
bombard our rooftops and fire guns
at our chests in any number you can
or trample on our body
with you jackboots until they are bruised
can you kill the voice?
We are that very immortal voice
we will ever echo
wherever we are
we will be speaking.
Trans: Govinda Raj Bhattarai
Hira Akash (b. 1954) is a Nepali poet of his repute. He frame as a poet rests in his maiden collection Aagoka Swarharu (1999). For a long time, he also edited literary magazines like Bhanu, Dubo and Varun.]