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Déjà Vu of Getting into the Wormhole
Once during my trip in the shiny black Car,
I felt a déjà vu of entering the wormhole.
I felt all my wishes being instantly fulfilled,
And— my spirit of this heart and soul got stable.
It’s not the first time I’ve fallen into this wormhole,
Hundreds of times I’ve traveled wisely through it in dreams.
But it’s the first time I’ve fallen into it with my eyes open,
Where I was doing the same work that I already accomplished.
This incident led me to think about my past life,
Does it exist, and we can never be aware of it?
Maybe it’s among those mysterious things,
that can only be proven if we know everything—
about the origin of this universe.
Despite people hanging all around me in the car,
I hear no sound, nor see anything around.
Does it mean that my heart is trying to abandon ‘Socialization’?
If yes, it may be that my heart felt—
Unknowingly— something fishy in being socialized.
Bio: Rajendra Ojha (Nayan) is a Nepalese poet, philosopher, social researcher, social worker, and EU-certified trainer from Nepal. He also served as a citizen diplomat for three months under the ‘Ministry of Population and Environment’ in 2018 in Switzerland for the diplomatic program of the Minamata Convention, which was held in Geneva, Switzerland. Poems and philosophical writings of Rajendra Ojha have been published in various national as well as international literary journals from Nepal, the U.S.A., India, China, Russia, Spain, Myanmar, Pakistan and United Kingdom in both Nepalese and English. He has also published two anthologies, ‘Through the World’ (A collection of experimental poems) and ‘Words of Tiger’ (A collection of philosophical and psychological poems), in 2011 and 2019, respectively. Mr. Rajendra Ojha has been honored by two major prestigious awards named ‘Asia’s Outstanding Internship Solution Provider Award 2020/21’ and ‘Dadasaheb Phalke Television Award 2023’ respectively for his work as a ‘Social Researcher’ as well as a ‘Social Worker’ (activities related to social responsibility), respectively, in 2021 and 2023.
