Bengali Poetry (Translated)

Beyond the Glass

You are on the other side of glass.
So clear, so fine a piece of glass,
yet neither of us can touch the other.
We see, we feel, but cannot touch.

I wanted to touch you
and ran in such haste
that I stumbled face-first, so clumsily...!
I hadn't noticed
that between us two
lay a terribly fine, terribly thin piece of impenetrable glass,
keeping us apart from each other
...as if for several ages.

This wall between us...
has risen lately, its paint still wet.
By whose grace does this wall stand?
Yours? Or my faith's?

Only one life, and such a short race!
It will end just so...
in your indifference, in my waiting.
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