After long time to my village I've been
Cannot accept this heartbreaking scene
A drop of tear fall from my eye
Deep with despair, let me tell you why
Where's my chautari, the Peepal tree?
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We are advancing towards to development, prosperity and good go...
Empty I feel, how can I believe my eyes?
My nature camouflaged to concrete lies
Feathered birds that sang at the dawn
To wake me up and start my day along
And sheltering them stood there a tree
They aren't there anymore, where is greenery?
The crickets that hummed me goodnight
Grasshoppers and butterflies have all died
Cool mountain breeze that offered relief
Has been stolen from me by mechanized thief
Can't hear the sound of river flowing
My heart ask me, what's happening?
I rush to see my childhood's river pool
Black drainage is flowing instead, human stool
The banks where water rippled my feet
Is now a dumping yard, my heart skips a beat
I see broken bottles, pieces of glass
Where I used to run bare feet on the grass
No scent of flowers that hung in the air
Onto the hills my vision start to glare
Mounts and lowlands have no more life
I cannot see even a single bee hive
I stretch myself to see the apple tree
On its shade my grandfather taught me
To write alphabets on slate with chalk
Holding his fingers I had learned to walk
He is no more on earth, gone from me
And so is the old apple tree
All sold by my wicked father's ill surmise
Because he wanted several wives
Depressed miserable and abandoned
I feel so deserted and twice orphaned
My earth shredded from her costume
Are you advancing towards the doom?Dipendra is the author of 'Rahasya!?: One Dangerous Mystery.'
