The sun also rises

(2024)  Amake balechilo se

To me He had said:
"In what respect should you fret;
I am here, so do not cry."
Myself He had told:
"The golden light will arrive;
It will rid all ebony;
Mind my words, and don't forget."

A line of stars in the heavens
Say they also are not helpless.
By moon's smile will get erased
Their pain and distress.

In the scorching heat of summer,
If flames be unbearable,
A southern breeze will carry
Honeyed implication.

From anybody's pinching words,
If at heart be felt a hurt,
The tune of hawk-cuckoo, essence of ambrosia,
Will remove all torment.

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Somehow I aspire

(2023)  Eta duhkha diye amare

So much sorrow given me,
Your mind did it please?
Ever do I swim in tears,
My heart being squeezed.

A Trove of Grace, people say;
So why is mine another fate?
Every day a load of pain
I go out bearing for whose sake?

Kindly do You hover over everybody;
Myself only You don't see.
Even so, I'm with hope night to morning;
Could it be a mote of mercy I received?

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Surely Your word must be good

(2022)  Asbe bale giyechile cale

Saying You will come You'd vanished;
The time of Your advent did not happen.
When nigh, You had cherished;
You had said You won't forget.

Countless trees and creepers, planets and stars,
They are flooded by Your love!
Why was I set far apart;
In memory why did You not store?

Like me, how many are erased,
Anguished and sprawling in the dust?
Your mind, does their pain not penetrate;
Please say, what sort of mind is thus?

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My logic fails, so I abstain

(2021)  Tumi kakhan kii bhave

Hey You, when and to what mind-state,
Oh my Darling, You allow embrace?
Who knows the answer, who can say!
To logic, that's unlikely, even though
He Who Grants Liberation does so time and again.

On dry ground does the lotus ever blossom?
Mentally do bumblebees sing any song?
And yet if You but want it, clouds dense and dark,
They quickly rain, and ambrosia drops.

By Your desire is our attainment;
At our wish never be it gained.
This same thirst-and-acquisition, it's been going on
For ages beyond ages in myriad fashions.

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I will reflect Your light

(2020)  Esechi tomar icchamata calite

I have come to move at Your desire;
My life's vow: While alive and when I die,
To brighten with Your light.

From its dawning is my sun's decline;
Hey Master, You have given insufficient time.
Please be kind; let the load be re-assigned...
I go on making the sunshine abide, abide.

Wealth and respect I don't crave, nor celebrity;
Please just grant me a resolute faith in Thee.
Let it be that in Your work I achieve the acme,
By the strength of Your blessing only.

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Sometimes I feel abused

(2019)  Tu bhalabasis shudhu shune thaki

I keep hearing that You only love;
Why then do I see elsewise in practice?
I won't say it; those words I'll endorse no more.
I won't ignore, I won't ignore, I'll ignore no longer.

There are garlands strung, and there are floral clusters.
In my pockets are mahuwa; my basket is filled.
But I won't give to You, I won't give, I will give no longer.

Yonder the sun rises, came a dawn of many hues;
You are Whom I choose; if not to You where do I move?
When You are near, this mind of mine gambols;
Round You would be orbiting my world.

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No cause for worry

(2018)  Tumi andhar ghare jvalo alo

You spark light inside a dark dwelling;
Those afflicted, You hold dear.
With two hands away You wipe
Sin's ebony from affected bodies.

Except for You no second doer is there;
So in Your direction everybody peers!
We are with You all the time...
And You pour love eternally.

Never and nowhere is anyone solitary
When Your Varábhaya^[1] perseveres.
The mountain peak goes on with head declined...
A dyed flambeau shines on me.

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