“Mein Tenu Pher Milangi”
By Amrita Pritam
Translated into English by Dr Jasbir
Kaur
“I will meet you again"
Where and how I don’t know
Perhaps I’ll
become an inspiration for your imagination,
And will descend
on your canvas.
Or I’ll be a
mysterious line on your canvas,
Silently admiring
you.
I’ll meet
you again
Where ?
How?
I don’t know.
Perhaps I’ll
be the flame of the sun
And melt
into your colors
Or I’ll sit
in the arms of the colors
And spread across your canvas.
I don’t know
how in which way, where?
But I’ll
surely meet you.
Perhaps I’ll
be a waterfall
And as the
water sprays from the fountain
I’ll rub the
droplets of water on your body
I’ll spread
my balmy coolness
On your bosom.
I don’t know
anything more
But I do
know…
That whatever
time might do,
It’ll walk
with me in my present birth.
When the
body perishes,
Then everything
will finish.
But the
threads of memories,
Are like
ions of memory bits.
I’ll pick up
those tiny memories,
Thread them,
Then I’ll meet
you again.
