If it's all Fancy by Sushant Thapa

What if being a road junkie 
Is about the neon and sodium lights,
Trucks and highway stalls, 
Empty parks and lonely benches 
With tunes of departure and
Love making vagabonds. 
The heat of travel must bury the traveler 
Under the ground. 
But life is lead. 
A journey is all it takes to silence 
The whistle in your head. 
What if being a hermit 
Is about the loneliness and 
Lack of social charm which needs to be
Fixed later for preaching. 
What if being a celebrity 
Is all about weekly newspaper headlines, 
Flash lights and piano keys;
Lights that always form a shadow
Behind the stage  
And where the real mask is cast off. 
There is pizzazz and colours 
There is a ghost of yesterday. 
What if one hates the modernity 
And chooses back to the muddy past. 
What if being a word master 
Is to critic all your life and never know who 
Benefited from it. 
What if being a leader 
Is mistaken for a politician with no plan. 
It is all fancy,
A plastic world. 
What if true love 
Is the one that greets you in the screen. 
It is surely hard to fall in such love 
If it's all fancy. 

 Sushant Thapa is a Nepalese poet from Biratnagar, Nepal who holds a Master's degree in English Literature from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi,India.Some of his publications include Trouvaille Review, The Piker Press, Lothlorien Poetry Journal, New York Parrot, Atunis Poetry, Visible Magazine, Litehouse exophonic Magazine, Impspired, EKL Review, The Kathmandu Post, My Republica and Harbinger Asylum. Sushant is the author of the poetry collection "The Poetic Burden and Other Poems" published by Authorspress, New Delhi, India and "Abstraction and Other Poems" forthcoming from Impspired Magazine, England.