Gopi Sapkota - Water

water changes its form
from air to ice, and
from ice to air
in between of them
it exists as it is
like a transitional void
that exists between
life and death.

it keeps atoms of air
till they are transformed into ice
like the void keeps the departed souls
till they find appropriate body

water doesn't have its own shape
it doesn't have its own smell
as the void is shapeless and doesn't contain smell

water contains nothing
but simply a presence of transition
between air and ice
void contains nothing
but simply a presence of transition
between life and death

and both water and void
encode and decode
the cycle of illusion.

Gopi Sapkota

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