He was forsaken,
By his inexorable mother,
At a non age
He was still sucking her breasts.

Poor child; hapless and wretched.
She abhorred him since his birth,
For she instantly conceived,
With yet another cut above son.

He experienced time and again
Hail/storm of abuse,
And the cloak-and-dagger on him
Crossed the ceiling.

In the nodi, she tried a lot
To mix strychnine on his meals,
She ordered her fraudulent kiths and kin to
Throw him in the waters.

On a midnight and at his sleep,
He was taken away
So far, so distant to
Put him in an isolation and evanescence.

Being into the tangled web,
Then he had his back to the wall.
He screamed, cried and asked for help
But no one-no help.

He puissantly bent over backwards to
Understand the predicament.
With the sanguinity of getting
Tower of strength he moved forward.

Lonely but being audacious,
He walked dense forests, high hills,
Huge rivers and as many stumbling blocks,
Nonetheless he didn’t give up as a bad job.

Propitious he, as he moved ahead
He found a ne plus ultra
Where a queer woman with her open heart
Reverted him his lost motherhood.

24th June 2010, Adelaide-Australia

तिमी बिना मेरो मित्रता हुन्छ कहाँ ?
बिना तिम्रो मिठो बोली मेरो मन छुन्छ कहाँ ?

मन र मुटु एक-आपसमा बुज्ने मित्र हुनुपर्छ
तिमीनै साथ भईदिए मेरो मन रुन्छ कहाँ ?

मित्र बन्छु बनाउछु तिमी पनि यसै गर है
यसै गरे दुनियाँमा खराब कस्ले सुन्छ कहाँ ?

दु:ख पर्दा हात दिने असल मित्र तिमी हौ
हामी भए सड्यन्त्रका तानाबाना कस्ले बुन्छ कहाँ ?

हृदयका सबै कुरा भन्न सक्छौ मलाई
दाहा गरी अङ्कुशमा कस्ले उन्छ कहाँ ?

२०६५ फागुन ३०
धरान

Singapore to Adelaide(2nd Feb 2010)
Though the plane started at 11:50 pm in Singapore, but while reaching sky above the beautiful Singapore city, the good day on which we started from Kathmandu was almost finished and another new day on the calendar was begun adding one more day on my life span. The first thing I did on the flight was to make myself easy to the seat for I was to travel all that way to Adelaide for almost seven hours. I did it with no hesitation and also helped MUMA to do so. There was no deficiency of the sources of entertainment. In front of my seat was the computer screen. Seeing it I started thinking the better way to start it and help myself listening music and watching movies of my choice. With repeated trials and seeing the Chinese gentleman to my right, I did and started browsing the music and movie files. Before that, I updated myself with the physical conditions outside the plane including temperature, altitude, time in the origin(Singapore) and destination(Adelaide) to name a few. I took the chance to explain all those things and also the route of the plane to MUMA to my left. One of the airhostesses came with the bagful of earphones and she gave me one. I used for its function and begun taking the real pleasure of music. While on the way with the waves of soothing music, I slept till the airhostess whispered me for the dinner. The dinner was superb and yummy so I didn’t take so long to finish it. The taste of it is still hanging on my taste buds. Apart from it water, juices and tea continued. Sometimes music, sometimes movies and sometimes on the lap of the sleep-goddess.

The captain from the cabin at once announced to tighten the seat belt and so the airhostess directed to us one by one. Waking up, I saw the time display. It was almost 8:30am on the South Australian time machine. With in the next half an hour, the Singapore Airlines started running along the runways of Adelaide Airport. Again in here, the air steward handed over us to the airport staff who led us to the immigration department situated with in there. Everything new as compared to the things back home. There were so many formalities to be met before exiting the airport. With the drowsiness, sleeplessness and yarning had all those formalities done. Then I managed to collect my luggage, had them x-rayed and checked properly remaining under the immigration and aviation laws of South Australia. Drawing the trolley full of bags I exited the immigration department. To my complete surprise, there were many Bhutanese kith and kin including my father-mother in-laws. As far as possible, as they come to sight and familiarity, I greeted them with the “Namastes’ and the warm hugs. Both ways the happiness knew no bound, the outer waiting lounge of the airport was intermingled with the fragrances of smiles and partly engulfed with the Nepali tones and dialects. The mass was obvious because, we the new arrivals were in group of twenty two, the receivers of this group, one or two for each, distinctly give rise to nice number. The words of confabulation and sharing slowly begun to fad as we the arrivals were to be handed over to the respective Case Co-ordinators assigned by Migration Resource Centre of South Australia(MRCSA).

मै अभागीको खालि सिउँदो भरि देला कसले ?
सिसाझै टुक्रिएको मुटु जोडिदेला कसले?

जिन्दगीनै उसैसंग काट्ने आशा राखेकी थिएँ
उसैको जस्तो माया फेरी गरिदेला कसले ?

सुस्ताउन्दा एकान्तमा बाचा केके गर्थ्यौ
यस्तै गरि आकाशका तारा झारिदेला कसले?

झुटो कसम खाइकन माया गरेकी रैछु
साँचो कसम अब फेरी खाइदेला कसले?

२०६४ माघ २०
धरान, नेपाल

Kathmandu to Singapore(1st Feb 2010)
After four cold nights in IOM transit centre in Kathmandu, a group of 35 Bhutanese people boarded SILK AIR from Tribhuwan International Airport, Kathmandu for Singapore on the 1st Feb 2010. I was one of them. Flying for 4 hours and 35 minutes on the skies above the oceans and many features of land topography the group was landed on Chang International Airport, Singapore at 8:15 PM( SST).As directed by the head Air Stewardess ,we unboarded the plane at last letting other commercial passengers to exit first. We were hospitably handed over to the airport staff, who helped us a lot till boarding the connecting flight. Among 35 of us 13 were having different destinations namely Sydney and Brisbane, so they were received by different hospitable airport staff and we the remaining 22,since we were to catch the connecting flight for Adelaide at 11:50pm (SST) followed a frank, friendly and charming lady(most be Singaporean) to Terminal 3 of the airport, I was seeing such a big airfield for the first time in my life. To our surprise the lady was carrying a placard type paper on which our last name with big bold letters were printed on it. I saw ‘POKHREL’ written there from quite a far. My chest swollen with happiness and I made other people with me see the same. We all were stunned ,well amazed and doubtlessly spellbound seeing the beauties of the Singapore airport. It was decorated like new bride and spotlessly clean as the full moon. I personally felt as if I was in the different world. I had heard that the airport in Singapore is one the world’s best airport. I bet myself on this truth. The night was like day with the sun overhead…I thought how the day would be? I was eagerly wanting to stay there and roam around but with the equal fear of getting lost I didn’t even think of going to the lavatory which was just up the elevator. I wished that night to be spent there but the waiting time was shortening. Soon the lady, who had gone to the counter of the SINGAPORE AIRLINES with our visas to fetch