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Had I not
stumbled I would have fallen If that
small mistake had not been made how mistaken my life would have been To fathom
my heart’s depths, how often I would have been misled by the heartbeat of
faraway Had I not
been swept aside by a rivulet the rising tide would have drawn me under If I
hadn’t been grazed by the paws of a cat I would have fallen into the mouth of a
tiger If I
hadn’t stumbled in the base camp itself I would have plummeted from 29,000 feet If I
hadn’t stumbled a mishap would have marked me forever If a
small mistake had not been made how wrong my life would have been [Manju Kanchuli. From: Mero Jeevan, Mero Jagat.
Publisher: Royal Nepal Academy, Kathmandu, 1997. © Translation: 1998, Wayne Amtzis and Manju Kanchuli. From:
The Minnesota Review, 1996]
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