Nepal’s business community has now ample time for rejuvenated aesthetic sense and cascading creativity as there is no business, no money and virtually no work as country reels under seemingly never-ending uncertainty. Many businessmen and professionals have thus tried to solace themselves by expressing pangs and pains in poetry. Here are few scattered pieces of poems taken from their diary. Please read them all:
From a banker:
A liquidity crisis again envelops
Base rate, KYC, Basel III to adhere
In a market highly flawed
By the grace of self declared Gods.
From a realtor:
It boggles me how fast
The land under me caved in
Why all fingers pointed to me
Not the chaps aired the bubble first?
From a jeweler:
Random walk of price of gold
Sellers are at the hold
Buyers feel over-sold.
But the reality is never told.
From an investor:
Just look at the NEPSE index
Leaves anyone always perplexed
As market is bullish taking on risk
Erring politics smashes it in brisk.
From an economist:
The affair of the state is iffy
The guardian angels acting sneaky
The mood is damp, almost piffy
And economy stands fiscal cliffy.
From a wage-earner:
No job, what else to mention?
No relief from perennial privation,
The minimum wage in the nation
Is never tied to the rate of inflation.
From a business leader:
We must certainly preface
Taxing few honest and rich
As the socialists these days profess
Will not fill ravine of whopping deficit.
From a social planner:
We are finding it absurd
Plans we heard were never delivered
But all the party comrades did prosper
People left to have suicide preferred.
From a political economist
When will parties exhibit maturity?
Help create stable income and security
So there could be a sense of certainty
And markets start to behave with surety.
From a planner:
Do policy makers really have any plan
On jobs, inflation and population?
If it isn’t the leaders concern
What if we lose our temper soon?
Finally, from a voter:
Our ears can’t hear anymore sermon
About job creation and developed nation.
We need more apprenticeship skills
That meets our needs and fixes growth ills.
Is there anybody to listen?
