Roshan Pariyar

Translated from the Nepali by Hem Bishwakarma

From 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.

-Pariyar is a poet based in Dhankuta, Nepal. He is the author of a collection of poems ‘Siyoko Durbin’.