A Poet From Barbarian Society Poem by Dhal Bahadur Jirel

A Poet From Barbarian Society



Poets are either ignored
Or mocked in the public
Yes, I come from very this place
Where Laxmi Prasad was once declared mad
Gopal Prasad was once laughed at.
And Bharav Aryal was ill treated
Now too late I understand
I am too is assumed an alien
A useless and filthy character
By this upside down barbarian society
Yes, I am too a poet.

For life long
After I learned that
I was also a part of this society
I began to write poems
Against social illnesses
Against idle ages
Against cultural bankruptcy
And, perhaps,
Uncountable poems
Against the brutal bodies
Living next to my hut
Living next to my neighborhood
And thought that my poems would
Touch the hearts of suppressed ones
Revive the mind of intoxicated ones
Bring gale of thoughts in dry brains
Build towers of goodness
Create thunderbolts against Pandora's box
Bring storms of revolution
And further more
They would lead feet
Towards the summit of progress
But poor was me
I was living in the grave-yard
Where the so-called living dead souls
Were caged in their moving tombs
And were being spat onto their faces
By the handful of demons
Hail.............!
Were my poems that weak?
To open the tombs locked inside out?
To heal the souls deep tranced?
My heart with my mind mingles
And helpless, I fall down on my knees
I the poet living in the barbarian society.

For so long
My eyes have witnessed
Sheer obscenity and falsehood
Heinous warfare
Nude instability
Moreover, I have found
Every lit candles blow off
And I know one day,
When my eyes turn dim
When my thoughts turn grey
With my age
My poems will only be called
Useless scribbles
And I the poet
Will die in the ominous obscurity
Leaving the barbarian world
With it's belly full of pus
In the state of obscurantism.

POET'S NOTES ABOUT THE POEM
I wrote this poem after I got fed up of seeing the condition of my locality.......!
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Dhal Bahadur Jirel

Dhal Bahadur Jirel

Jiri,8 Bhandar, Dolakha
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