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Let's Meet Hereafter!

Nazrul Islam, Nazrul Islam poetry, Muslim / Sufi, Muslim / Sufi poetry,  poetry, [TRADITION SUB2] poetry, Yoga / Hindu poetry by Nazrul Islam
(1899 - 1976) Timeline

English version by
Mohammad Omar Farooq

Original Language
Bengali

Muslim / Sufi
Yoga / Hindu : Shakta (Goddess-oriented)
20th Century

We will meet again in the life Hereafter;
Here, please, forget me with a simple laughter.
Anything that remained unsaid,
I won't say; Let you also keep silence;
If I offer my love, turn me away;
If I persist, hurt me, in pretense.

Dream is broken abruptly here,
The evening's bud sheds in the dawn;
The heart dries up before love is savored;
The ambrosia here has the taste of poison.

In separation here, heart longs in agony;
When together, quickly we go apart;
Where the fountain of love is never dry,
In that everlasting Garden, remember to seek my heart.

 

 

 

Themes

  Awakening
  Dawn
  Dream
  Garden
  Heart


Recommended Books


Singing to the Goddess: Poems to Kali and Uma from Bengal, Translated by Rachel Fell McDermott

 

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