History

Sujan Timalsina

Innumerable tales were written on my history
But it was only history that read the tales;
I did not read any of them
Nor did you read any of them.

The marks of my steps, taken to alter history
Were all erased, like creases of boat-marks on water
Many stone-inscriptions became a part of house-walls.

Those sheets were, in a few days, crushed
To recast into Nepali paper, to address its scarcity.

I then started looking for pages of my own history
But unable to retrieve the same,
I am gradually turning into history myself. 


[Sujan Timalsina is a Nepali poet from Nuwakot District. He lives in Kathmandu and attends Nepal Ved Vidyashram, Bankali, Kathmandu.]