Life Or The Nine Emotions Poem by Padma Devkota

What a joyful blessing it is to be alive!
How good it is to feel the breath of earth caress the face!
Yet the well-known inevitable looms like a giant gloom
Amidst uncertainties of the other side of life
Even as imagination breeds respect for the visibly vast
Or fancied torturers tear the human flesh in hell.
O, how disgust rises against such heaven's hounding!
I would rather respond to the beautiful here and now
And stand agape at some sublime that grips the heart.