Longing and Belonging
written by: Sushant Thapa
Take away the richness
I only need survival.
I need no white spots
That hide abstract signs.
I want the color of pain
To amuse my heart.
When richness is empty
And the new house echoes
I remember my childhood
When I learned to play with the sand.
The sandcastle,
The rainfall on my shoulder.
When everything is fine
How can I think?
Every clean thing
Does not stir a heart in me;
A heart is also not white
It is filled with red.
I need some stirring
In my soul.
No richness can buy me
The happiness of my abstraction.
No white spots
Can show me the face
Of a true world.
I need interplay.
I need fusion;
The closeness
That can speak
About longing.
Sushant Thapa is a Nepalese poet from Biratnagar, Nepal who holds a Master’s degree in English literature from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India. He has published three books of poetry namely: The Poetic Burden and Other Poems (Authorspress, New Delhi, 2020), Abstraction and Other Poems (Impspired, UK, 2021) and Minutes of Merit (Haoajan, Kolkata, 2021). Sushant has been published in places like The Gorkha Times, The Kathmandu Post, The Poet Magazine, The Piker Press, Trouvaille Review, Lothlorien Poetry Journal, Impspired, Harbinger Asylum, New York Parrot, Pratik Magazine, The Beatnik Cowboy, The Dope Fiend Daily, Atunis Poetry, EKL Review, The Kolkata Arts, Dissident Voice, Journal of Expressive Writing, As It Ought To Be Magazine and International Times among many.
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