“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.