I’m told, you are beautiful,
I’m told, you are precious,
I’m told, you are my heart,
Dear moon, by sun,
Let’s get married.
As we married,
Sooner I came to realize,
His heart resembles
“Plato’s cave”[1],
Walled from everywhere,
Denied me to see the open sky,
Renounced my liberty.
But I reminded him the fact that
In the Garden of Eden
I too had eaten
The Forbidden Fruits,
I too was blessed
With the legacy to defy.
~ Sushant Kumar B.K
Nepal
Note: Plato’s cave, a famous fable in one of Plato’s dialogues (The Republic). People in this fable have been chained all their lives in a cave. They can’t see the world as it is, but only its shadows.