A Lesson Poem by Hem Bishwakarma

-by Roshan Pariyar

Form your heart the scissors

That persistently cuts and breaks into pieces

Wrap a rose around a needle

Insert the yarn of pains and hurts

Then,

Stitch steadily

To the frayed life

On the sewing machine of serenity

The pains will taste awesome

While they begin to pain.

(Hem Bishwakarma is a poet and translator from Nepal. He has many poetry and short stories translations, and poems in Nepali and English published to his credit. He mostly works on Nepali-English translations.)