Dixit K. C. is a writer from Nepal currently living in Finland. In poetry, he finds a way of expressing some reflections about life, death and the memories that remain through time and space. His poems “Perspective” and “Slave or Not” expose the burdens and pains of modern life, and the concept of freedom in our century.
PERSPECTIVE
Sometimes some questions are
darker than the night itself,
deeper than the secrets
you have buried beneath your skin.
As you struggle to find the answers
that haunt your peace, you wonder
whether to look within or beyond,
whether to seek convenience
in the closest explanations
or to crawl for the truth
that might lie in the distant light
which might enlighten you
at the same time, blow you
into ashes swept by a feeble wind.
Your truth demands you
to shatter the stained window
and take a leap forward.
You! You need to jump,
you need to test
if your wings are for real.
SLAVE OR NOT
The realities of life are such
that the roses aren’t red anymore,
at the end of the rainbow
one doesn’t find any treasure,
but only a signboard that reads
PAY YOUR BILLS!
The very idea of
freedom gets challenged
as one discovers
that rivers are dammed.
It is then one submits
to the open-aired prison
and makes peace
with the idea of being enslaved.
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