Smile

By Sushant Thapa

PROMPT — The way I see it ...

I can smile

With the sun.

By the time

The moon rises

I can still carry on

The game of smiling.

The thunder

Has the light,

Can you,

Decipher the truth?

The truth that

Makes you alive.

What vocation

Shall you choose,

That does not

Enhance the lights

Of the world?

I am a waking constellation

Watched from

A bed of earthen stay.

Every golden sun

Has a forgotten darkness.

The dark is the color

Of the evening

That lets the firefly shine.

Come be the welcoming spirit

In the aftermath of glory,

When no essence

Is only worldly.

Variation is the name of nature

When every essence meets,

And occupies space.

Listen to the roar!

Of a dark alley,

That makes the blackness,

Just a color.

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Sushant Thapa (born on 26th February, 1993) is a Nepalese poet who holds a Master’s degree in English literature from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India. He has published five books of English poetry, namely: The Poetic Burden and Other Poems (Authorspress, New Delhi, 2020), Abstraction and Other Poems (Impspired, UK, 2021), Minutes of Merit (Haoajan, Kolkata, 2021), Love’s Cradle (World Inkers Printing and Publishing, New York, USA and Senegal, Africa, 2023) and Spontaneity: A New Name of Rhyme (Ambar Publication House, New Delhi, 2023). Sushant writes from from Biratnagar-13, Nepal.