It seems You are amused

(2017)  Ese hese kena cale jao balo

Why leave, having smiled after arriving, please tell me;
Don't You even look at them–
Those who hold You dear?

On earth You've scattered lustrous beauty;
Particles of sweetness You have filled up to the brim.
Through hints and winks You've gone on calling;
What for the deceptive tricks, please do speak!

You don't want to grant embrace; why then come and leave?
Having come again with light, why be tucked away in darkness?
One moment You make laugh; the next one, You make weep...
What is this lively game, please do speak!

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Don't limit the search

(2016)  Tomake khunjechilum

Yourself had I pursued
In laughter, joy, and liveliness.
But I had neglected
That also amid sorrow You get detected.

You are in the nectar of a bloom;
You are in the moonlight's moon.
You are in the petal's sweet perfume,
And You are in a cyclone's threat.

You are in nirvana's luster;
You are in a lifetime's thrills.
Upon Earth and in Heaven You've endured,
And You are in a bolt-of-lightning's fiery vexation.

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Absent You I'm destitute

(2015)  Aloker jatrapathe

Upon light's journey,
Day and night please stay with me.
Master, I'm alone and helpless;
Two arms extending, I beseech Your mercy.

In happiness, please enter my dwelling;
Full of love, I will appease.
In my sorrow also, stay not far away;
My humble fare, it is for Your sake.
A lamp in my dark home, kindly ignite.

With You afar, in worldliness I get lost;
With You surrounding, myself I discover.
I laugh and cry, I sing Your songs;
In thoughts of You I stay absorbed.
To You I proffer a thousand prostrations.

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Both love and grief only last so long...

(2014)  Bhalo besechile, kena balo

You had held dear;
Why, do tell please...
When to me You did not yield;
When You weren't moved by my tears.

I have kept bedecked my home,
And I've ignored both friend and foe.
Crying I've been struck by sorrow,
But the night did vanish.

Finally the flower molted;
Tears mingled with the wind.
Grief adrift on firmament,
It was defeated.

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You set me free

(2013)  Aji path bhule tumi ke ele

Losing Your way today, oh Who came
Amid the mind, giving a shake?
You cast away both fear and shame.

Why did You come without a hint,
To be prepared did not permit?
I failed to keep a lantern lit;
But You brought light to darkness.

Lest You say that You have cherished,
Why then have You stayed afar?
And why have You kept me apart...
Does anybody call that fondness?

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Why did You go away?

(2012)  Ami tomay bhalo besechilum, mor pane phire cao ni

I had cherished Thee,
But You looked not at me afresh.
Mistakes I'd made deliberately,
But still today that love I did not forget.

Oh why had You entered my psyche?
Fathoming the agony, mind You'd commandeered.
After flooding my whole being,
You departed far away and never reappeared.

Inside of my petals, any honey that had been,
It dwelt within Your lively contemplation.
You withdrew, and in drops nectar got shed;
Ever since I found that not returning.

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Open your eyes

(2011)  Tumi priya amar amio tomar

You are my love, I'm also Yours;
In many rhythms I dance to Your nature.
I am on life's riverbank with gloom and light-beams;
Through a series of waves I behold with feelings.

On the journey constantly You give inspiration;
You never neglect to furnish work's impetus.
And when I've been forgetting You, stricken by tears,
With a honeyed wine You dismantle lethargy.

Inside of You there's no place for narrowness;
Intrinsic to You I find an all-combining ideation.
As to brains wracked by pain amid gem-studded beauty,
You make them overflowing with a bright festivity.

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