they say Nepal is dying.

they say Nepal is dying

i can see it

i can feel it in my bones

yet all i worried about

was to get the house rat out

and well,

cheesecake at Glenary's

and when they served it 

on a plastic plate

all i remembered

was my bamboo toothbrush

standing tall in my

tiled bathroom basin.

Mordechai told me once,

that these efforts do not make a change

and so,

what effort does it take?

what are the marks 

that my soles make

any good for?

when all i leave behind is

something far worse

than the marks left before.

they say Nepal is dying

i feel we will too, 

soon

and the church cries about salvation,

and the rapture,

the beginning of the end.

alas!

may God forgive us 

for it is our own hands

that have brought our suffering.