Poetic Expression for Ukraine

Prof. Medani Prasad Bhandari
Published on : Sun, 13 Mar, 2022

​Surrounded by uncertainty and calamities
In between unending questions and queries
In the middle of sharp nails and arrows
Underground on tunnels
Listening the threats of bullets
Without having knowledge of why,
I got lost, I got lost.

Death threats from own blood relatives,
I am beaten, threaten and treated as enemies,
From my own house, I am kicked out,
No idea why, but my identity is endangered
I got lost, I got lost.

Role and responsibilities are piling and piling
Unfinished list of job is filing and filing
Own blood relatives tearing me apart and nailing
In between the ocean of never-ending path
I got lost, I got lost.

Knocking doors and doors for helpful hand
Telling the story of misery, which has unlimited bands
Raising the hands as a defeated worrier
No one ready to support except knocking out
I got lost, I got lost.

Stretching my arms to everyone who cross by me
Showing the wounds of beaten body and ugly fortune of mine
Yearning for love and sympathy of people
I am so tired, I am so tired
I got lost, I got lost.

Dark path with sharp thrones are in front mine
The thirsty, hungry and tired lives are my friends have no shine
Asking everyone who cross the road for help
Except The negligence, disregard and hate treat no other sign
I got lost, I got lost.

I don’t see the top, neither bottom
No direction and the motion
Hanging with indefinite time on null
I got lost, I got lost.

My ground is flooded, and sinking in the tears
Beloveds are out of touch and speak in deep rooted fear
Standing as dumb, in the sound of bullet and bump
I am standing as  blind and paralyzed in unknown path
I got lost, I got lost.
I got Lost, I got lost.


Prof. Medani P. Bhandari, PhD, is well-known humanitarian, poet, essayist, and author of hundreds of scientific papers and many books on climate science, sustainability, biodiversity, social theories and practices and inequalities. Currently, he is serving at Gandaki University, Nepal, Akamai University, USA and Sumy State University, Ukraine with various capacity. He is motto is to give back to the society, whatever, he has learned, earned, and experienced. This poem reflects his current state of war in Ukraine and within and beyond.