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?