Unanswered

(Based on Rabindranath Tagore’s song, ‘মোর ভাবনারে’)

My mind wonders,

Which wind had rocked it off?

Was it the heart of the thick-blue clouds,

which rain down so sweetly?

There is no sight of the answer,

Only the haunting melody of some shadow,

Which tinkles about in my mind,

In soft, tender harmonies.

In a deep dream, I saw – 

My mind, wandering around

A silken blue, a mere shadow,

Which it calls to be the ‘wind’.

The mind flies away

In the wind of those blue clouds,

Where the shadow of the fantasy,

Flutters about in the sky.

My mind returns,

But in a nervous state,

It did not get its answer,

Except the aroma of the sweet ‘ketaki’…

My mind still wonders,

On rainy days,

Where the blue clouds rain down sweetly,

Wondering – who had rocked it off?

***

M.Macabre

07.08.2020

Dedicated to: Rabindranath Tagore, D.P.D.