An Old Man

By Dipendra Thapa
Published: October 23, 2017 08:34 AM

An old man of about seventy
Came to me and asked
The difference between plan and action 
Not so difficult a task

I answered plan is the suicide note
By the person who is still alive
And action is the dead body
Of the martyr who must not survive.

The old man patted on my shoulder
And said if I was right then
He would not be there
to ask me the question, never again.