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Unanticipated Tihar

A sporadic festival comes one-off in a year With the onset of it marigold, garland, Vibrant colors and Deusi - Bhaillo Continued to boom
By Diwakar Dhakal

A sporadic festival comes one-off in a year


With the onset of it marigold, garland,


Vibrant colors and Deusi - Bhaillo


Continued to boom


Yesteryear, it used to be delightful


Sadly, this year…


Something unpleasantly different


The courtyard isn’t decorated


With spangles of colored sand


The blooming flowers are devastated


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There is no delighted smile


How can I accede the onset of Tihar


Someone, earnestly tell me


When colorful light fades off


When the circular loaf isn't made


When there is no behest by Bali Raja


To play Deusi - Bhailo


How can we baptize it by Tihar?


Someone, please tell me genuinely


Whether I am being impaired by vision or deaf to listen


Why can't I see the pleasantness of delightfulness?


Why can’t I listen to the deafening sound of firecrackers?


Why the goddess of wealth is insolent


By abandoning generous hearts


How it can embrace greed


Why are houses like an incinerated shanty?


Why are jovial faces not delighted?


It is my figment of imagination or reality


Anyone, Kindly, disentangles me from it


How can a sister wish for her brother's longevity?


When brothers are stranded in terrifying circumstances?


Why can't Bali Raja escort them?


No mark on the destitute forehead,


No garland and marigold on the neck,


How can I count immeasurable blessings?


Which are shared among kinship?


Unfortunately, this Tihar went miserably


With the good grace of god


Let us be hopeful for another Tihar.

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