When I see you unguided
With no paths measured with reasons;
You still move the whole sea
Without touching its shore.
You create the banks of the rivers when
You want to step out of the water.
You act without consent
And that has also made you free;
For you worship time and work.
Cutting every rope that pulled you back
You swallow the earthen planet.
You are a reason's delight
A heart in a waking life.
You are of the land and
You make the sky immortal
Because your gaze exists for far and near.
The spirit of voices in you
Have driven the chariot of minds in others.
You are my verse of faith;
My hero of words and deeds.
You are my simple idol
Not made of voiceless stones.
You are also the reader of this verse
Among the poets of the world.
You are living and yet divine;
Yet abstract and running like blood;
Above all you are human.
Sushant Thapa (born on 26th February, 1993) is an award-winning Nepalese poet from Biratnagar-13, Nepal who holds an M.A. in English literature from Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) New Delhi, India.
He has published seven books of English poetry, They are: The Poetic Burden and Other Poems (Authorspress, New Delhi, 2020), Abstraction and Other Poems (Impspired, UK, 2021), Minutes of Merit (Haoajan, Kolkata, 2021), Love’s Cradle (World Inkers Printing and Publishing, New York, USA and Senegal, Africa, 2023), Spontaneity: A New Name of Rhyme (Ambar Publication House, New Delhi, 2023), Chorus of Simplicity and Other New Poems (Ukiyoto Publishing, 2024) and Finding My Soul in Kathmandu (Ukiyoto Publishing, 2024). His short story collection entitled “The One Rupee Taker and Other Stories from Nepal” is also published by Ukiyoto Publishing. He works as a lecturer of English in Biratnagar, Nepal. Mr. Thapa has also translated two books of poems from Nepali to English and he has also written book reviews for The Rising Nepal and The Annapurna Express.