कविता / Poem
यात्रा
सजाउन सकिन तिमीलाई
मेरो यो आँखाको नानीमा
समेट्न सकिन तिमीलाई
हृदयको भित्री कोठामा
न नै लुकाउन सकें आफूलाई
तिम्रो मायाको छहारीमा।
कसरी अंकित गरौं म तोकेर
मेरो निम्ति तिमी “विशेष” हौ भनी
जब यहाँ वास्तविकता
बेग्लै बनिसकेको छ
मेरो जीवनमा तिम्रो अस्तित्व मेटिएर
तिमी त म मा विलीन भइसकेछौ।
अब त मात्र जिउनु छ मलाई
जीवनको अर्थ तिमी खोलिदिनु
अँध्यारो गोरेटो नियाल्न सक्ने
तिमी मेरो दृष्टि बनिदिनु
हृदयको ढुकढुकी कायम राख्ने
अशेष इन्धन बनिदिनु
जीवनको चर्को घाममा तिमी
शीतल पवन भै नाचिदिनु।
अब म मरे, तिमी मरिदिनु
जीवनको शेष पन्नामा
एउटै अस्तित्व छापिदिनु
कसैले परिचय मागे हाम्रो
आत्माको घुम्टो उघारीदिनु
शून्यको गहिराई देखाइदिनु
चकमन्न चित्कार सुनाइदिनु
अनन्तमा विलुप्त भइदिनु।।
I could not adorn you
in the pupil of my eye;
I could not gather you
into the inner chamber of my heart;
nor could I hide myself
in the cool shade of your love.
How do I declare, in so many words,
that you are “special” to me,
when reality here
has already become something else entirely:
your separate existence has dissolved from my life,
and you have merged wholly into me.
Now all that is left for me is to live —
so be the one who unfolds life’s meaning for me,
be my eyes, able to read
the dark footpath ahead,
be the endless fuel
that keeps this heart beating,
and in life’s scorching noon,
dance around me like a cool wind.
And now, when I die — die with me;
on life’s final page
let a single existence be printed.
Should anyone ask who we are,
lift the veil from our soul,
show them the depth of the void,
let them hear the scream of utter stillness,
and vanish with me into the infinite.