Uma Regmi
There I stood far and wide,
Seeking where the light would hide.
There I hoped night and day,
That I had a good fate.
I was sad, very uncertain,
Hope had become a burden.
Had no part in it,
Truth didn’t seem to fit.
Still, I stood there, lost and wide,
But knowing I would never find,
Light free of hate,
I didn’t have a good fate.
Resigned the game,
Life with no ploy,
I felt joy,
Were light and dark the same?
(The poet is a grade 10 student of Shree Bal Uddhar Secondary School Budhanilkantha Municipality-10, Kapan, Kathmandu.)