Rabindranath Tagore Translation: Patience

Patience by Rabindranath Tagore loose translation/interpretation/modernization by Michael R. Burch If you refuse to speak, I will fill my heart with your silence and endure it. I will remain still and wait like the night through its starry vigil with its head bent low in patience. The morning will surely come, the darkness will vanish, and your voice will pour down in golden streams breaking through the heavens. Then your words will take wing in songs from each of my birds' nests, and your melodies will break forth in flowers in all my forest groves. Keywords/Tags: patience, Tagore, translation, Bengali, heart, heartbreak, silence, night, stars, vigil, darkness, voice, streams, heaven, birds, songs, nests, melodies, flowers, groves