Oh! Rare traveler/ Go, to the farthest edge of the earth/ Touching the heart that has been torn apart by war/ And, connect the earth that has been connected by geography so far/ With the soft touch of your feelings/ Connected with tears and compassion/ Connected with humanity and love
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Twenty-six hundred years later
Once again
Searching for Lumbini in another hemisphere
From the bare and wide road of Texas
After walking how many thousand steps
does it connect 'Dallas to Washington DC ?'
Does the distance of thirty-seven hundred kilometers connect?
Neither the omniscient America has the answer
nor the Trump sir
In the middle of the night
As if silently leaving the palace
Bare feet
Bare hands
Wearing a single robe
They have come out
Giving the same answer
In the great transition, the Buddha
That the Buddha took
Every step is the earth- Lumbini
Every step is the earth- Lumbini
Which has begun
A walking journey
From Lumbini to the other hemisphere
At this moment, he
Eighteen monks in a fistful
Eighteen Pitaka mantras
Walking eighteen feet
A distance of thirty-seven hundred kilometers
And, connecting
With the eighteen-branched rope of peace
Dallas to Washington DC
Walking Walking
The chest of Hiroshima, which was destroyed eighty years ago, where the seed of humanity was erased for the first time from the epic
of man. And, with a single gesture of man, one hundred and forty thousand innocent people were reduced to ashes.
remembering that moment
The world's first atomic gift
That 'little boy'
is under the stairs.
Vietnam, which was torn apart by the barbarity of the Cold War, is still paying the price of two million genocides.
Remembering the That which has flown down the Red River for twenty years.
The blood of the Viet Cong
And, as steadfast as the Fansipan mountain- Ho Chi Minh
They are stumbling step by step
Like a snowball Countless stumbles of 'proxy war' on their feet
Everlasting enemies are born
That enemy breed Iran, Afghanistan
That Middle East
Africa, Latin America respectively
On one side of the Euphrates River
In the spider tunnel of 6 Batte 10
Saddam Hussein hiding
Floating in the middle of the Caribbean Sea
Fidel Castro's country
The lampposts are double-sided
But, the light of compassion has gone out
Under whose shadow
The world's soul is trembling
The cries of Palestinian mothers
The streets are covered with the bloody faces of innocent children
A chick that has just been bitten by a cold - Venezuela
And, the enemy Nicolas Maduro
Walking Like this - stepping
The 'US Sixty-Four' highway painted with the blood of the whole world
Gathered on both sides of the highway
Waving hands
Thousands of men and women to welcome
Who are saying
For the first time on this bloody road
The soul of man is walking
Oh! Rare traveler
Go, to the other side of the earth Touching the heart that was torn by war
And, the earth that has been bound by geography for so long
With the soft feathers of your feelings
With tears and compassion
With humanity and love
Young children are waiting together
With prayer flowers in their hands
Whose eyes are saying
We need a peaceful and beautiful earth like this flower
Oh! New man
Only you have that generous chest
That can fulfill our wishes
Please,
Give us back our flower-like earth
But the omniscient America does not know Even unarmed eyes are missiles
Tears and love are also atomic bombs
Which without a sound
Without violence and noise
Just like the prayers of children
Pure and silent
Winning each step, the area of compassion Explodes in the soul of man
Look!
The White House is shaking
The musket is exploding
Right now- An unarmed walking missile!
Which is making a silent declaration
Against all the wounds of history
Another war of ointment
A counter-war
where no one will lose
And, which will be called
'The Third World War of Peace'
On the 90th day of the journey
Eighteen monks ask- 'Which place is this?'
Someone answers- 'This is your beloved Lumbini
Which is in North Carolina'
Twenty-six hundred years later
Thus- has set out
Silently on foot- Buddha
To whom to give
The answer to thirty-seven hundred kilometers of steps
And, stepping on the five hundred and thirty-four year old
Columbus's terrifying footsteps
Another new America within America is to be discovered
-----
Rai is the Chancellor of Nepal Academy of Sciences.
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