के भन्छ यो मुस्कान ?

तिमीलाई था' छ यो मुस्कानले के भन्छ ?
दाताहरुलाई छिट्टै सहयोगी हात ले भन्छ ।
सुन कलिला ओठले तो जे भन्छ,
मलाई अमेरिका जाने मौका दे भन्छ ।
यति सुन्दर भविष्य चाँडो गर है भन्छ,
उडाइ हाल आजै नकटा यो 'मे' भन्छ ।
बच्चो हाँसेर हतार भा'छ रे भन्छ,
पर्खाइ गार्हो - थाहा छैन कसले के भन्छ,
यस्तो सवैलाई शरणार्थीको गति रे भन्छ ।
सवैको यस्तै गति भा'छ रे भन्छ ।


(मेरी प्यारी नीतिलाई) 

कमल

My Dreamland America

I used to imagine America to be
Enormous, as in map I see
Virtually found her to be art
So tiny, easily filled in heart!

She dwells in it: lives there
Love to me, she doth share
As a minute minor, awfully small
Imagined someone would give me a call.

Little grown up I had a clue
Eversince, "I really love you"
Damned young boy, I often said
"Instead of rice they take bread'!