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Yield!
Over and over again our generation is discredited. Those who claim to have tasted the real world laugh at our supposed immaturity—and for good reason, too, because most retort to such ridicule is knee-jerk hot-air hormone-drivel.
But, easily it is forgotten that the fingers fumbling with cold bullets and hot barrels belong to this generation. Easily it is forgotten that the most disenchanted, the most effectuated, and the most affected are of this generation. Those before us failed—every single of them—and left us ankle-deep in bloody murk. What field for us to sow? What harvest to reap?
New Nepal is possible—just yield to us; let us efface you along with every trace of your follies.
What world will seventy-year olds fight for? Fight for your last lungful of air, last cowering smile, last lingering senility.
What glory will fifty-year olds fight for? Fight with hope that the wick will burn slow, that the evening will be rosier than the unrelenting afternoon, that one day the thorn you fenced yourself with will flower easy and enough not to rend you.
New Nepal is possible—but the old must go. Yield to us.
Blunderers—equally bloody you have been, each of you: in thirsting for ancestral sap now of such a slow trickle, groveling for new gold where there was only the gold of a harvest song, then cutting your brother‚Äôs head, only because you imagined things ought to be different.
Yes, things ought to be different. Yield to us. We will bury you under a chorten‚Äôs watchful sentry, we will cremate you with Pashupatinath sounding his conch. Yield to us, because, plain it is to all willing to see—tomorrow has no bosom for you.
Yield to us now, for the universe is witness that youth lasts not forever. Yield to us now, for we have all seen—your greed lasts forever.
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