Ice-cream of Conspiracy by Rajendra Ojha

What kinds of horses do you want to ride?

Oh, doll of ashes;

Do you want to ride a horse like a crystal musky, or a smoky vanilla?

Success walks in a double-edged sword of conspiracy and idealness,

Where Smokey Musky could be a black diamond.

But success is like a melting yet transparent ice cream,

That comes in the corn made from unseen amylase.

So, check your corn before you take that melting yet transparent ice cream,

Who knows, it might be coated with a double-edged sword!

All horses are born free, yet governed by choice.

But what if a horse is not a projection of will-to-move?

Success is the ontology of desires enfolded in the flavor of uncertainty.

Ask Icarus, if sweetness kept him from burning,

Or was it the height that brought him down?

So, think once, oh doll of ashes:

Is Saccharine a form of forgetting?

Or, solely the camouflage of volatility?

Oh, doll of ashes, you are free not only to choose your horse,

But the wind that flows beneath their hooves— seen or unseen.

Thus, look out for the seasoning of your reins,

Who knows what taste of freedom might be hidden within it?

Rajendra Ojha (Nayan) is a Nepalese poet, social researcher, social worker, philosopher, and EU-certified trainer from Nepal. His poems and philosophical essays have been published in various national and international literary journals from Nepal, Abu Dhabi, England, Greece, India, Canada, China, Pakistan, the U.S.A., Spain, Myanmar, Russia, Pakistan, and many more. He also served as a citizen diplomat for three months under the ‘Ministry of Population and Environment’ in 2018 in Switzerland for the diplomatic program of the Minamata Convention, which was held in Geneva, Switzerland.