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Letter From The Himalayas (Sonnet 2497) ― Abhijit Naskar, Sonnets From The Mountaintop



It may sound preposterous to digital chimps,
who cannot even walk in a straight line
without asking AI, but those of us humans
still have a functional brain, heart and spine.

I obliterate myself pouring out life,
beyond all known limits of literature,
only to be blamed for my himalayan immensity,
by the religious of hate and nationals of bigotry.

Yet I don’t hate you back, you’re still my children,
someday your own descendants will call your fall.
When I’m pissed at somebody’s stupidity,
I don’t get rude, cruel or violent,
I get extremely patronizing, unbearably brotherly,
that’s my way of not losing control.

First I was a monk, then I was a scientist,
later I was a poet, finally I am the Human Race.
You still hang from the trees,
yet you claim to understand the Himalayas!
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