Rabindra Paudel

The angles that shape up as you smile
The zigzag that forms on when you move
The curves that hides beneath your glossy lips!
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The rain in the city is not over yet, it looks there won't be a respite for the rest of the day
but a heart, filled with old love, is beating beneath you.
Then, against the weather you go to a mall at the downtown
where you buy a memory
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'Why are you weeping so like a child? ' a woman asked God
When He was travelling Earth;
'It's because I now I fathom out how thoughtful and true
My son's love is, which's for thee! '
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This is a real fragment from Endless Betrayal in which
A loose woman's fallen in a pit of maddening sex
And her deceitful performances has grown
Wilder than they were ever before;
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It might be from anywhere
And might be
To only her
But it was true,
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Good Earth! This deceitful woman is now
rotten in a grave underneath your
tanned skin;
In her living days she was
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I said, "Your voice is the panacea -
My soul aches no more."

A punishment: she dropped the phone;
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Suppose death comes at my threshold
and asks me to wake up at one gloomy night

And I grabbed Death's dark claw firmly
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As the sun peeks out of the rugged hill
shadows of moving machines
wax and wane
on the rusty walls of the houses:
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