You were asleep, lost in your delusive reverie
While I was awake, building my own destiny
You were cursing all, infuriated by your life
While I was praying, festooned with delight
You were destroying, the love within you
While I was creating, the love amongst us
You were hopeless, losing faith in yourself
While I was hopeful of conquering myself
You were slothful, forever chagrined to labor
While I was working ceaselessly like the clock
You were sightless, blinded by your supreme ego
While I was gallantly smoldering myself from me
You were sowing malice, in the mortal’s soul
While I was planting, the seeds of compassion
You were lost, in the course of your covetousness
While I was sauntering in the path of moderation
You were miserable, though decked with prosperity
While I was smiling, even in the midst of deficiency
You were atheist, doubting the authenticity of god
While I was making the garland of heavenly trust
You were searching the key, to open the door of bliss
While I was serving the humanity, expecting nothing
But the only wish, of seeing them incessantly happy
And now I am very happy individual, and if you
Had done the things that I had done prior, then today
You also would have been as contented as me. But….
Alas! You never did it. Alas! You never did it.



Copyright 2003 Bhuwan Thapaliya
Photo: Laxmi Prasad Devkota( Great Poet of Nepal )