Coming and Going- Asha Jawa
COMING AND GOING
(ASHAJAWA)
Rabindranath Tagore
(Translated by Snehendu Kar)
Love came in such quiet steps
she seemed like a dream.
I failed to welcome her.
As she left,
startled by the sound
of my door
I rushed to beg her return.
By then my dream was without a form,
vanished into the darkness of the night,
leaving only a trace of her lamp-flame,
like a golden mirage
that reached into the far horizon
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© Translated by Snehendu Kar
Collected Works of Tagore: Vol. 24.p.70
Geetabitaan: p..910
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