Doubt in the Signature

 
Why do you keep him closest of all?
Why does the distant one stay by your side?
I too was once distant,
did you ever hold me so near?
In love, in scorn, or perhaps in tenderness?
No, you never did! Then why this new person there?


What have you given me all this while, will you tell me?
Then why should the old me linger still in hope?
Why does it feel wrong when I become you today?
And can you even become me anymore!


I'm not saying you must need all such things!
And don't lie to me saying... I love you!
I know you don't love truly, then why say it?


I feel such longing, from sleep, from the world itself
to simply flee alone today!
Resting my head on your chest, so tenderly
to lose myself in love!


Do you keep them there too in that place?
Why, tell me? What enchantment holds you?
Do you even know them at all?
Don't you know that space is mine alone?
You've given everything away completely, haven't you, tell me?
Then what else have you kept for my place?


Will you remain silent even now?
If so, then live on in love itself!
Stay well with all your beloveds!


Listen now, will you bring your ear close to my lips?
I'm telling you, listen, I can't bear to live without you anymore...
This breath of mine... let lip touch lip and let
our love story be written today!


Nothing stays in your memory!
Why don't you understand anything?
To love, the heart is needed first of all!
Why are you breaking that very heart like this?


Alright listen, I won't speak another word of love!
All your miserliness when it comes to me!
You shelter everyone else,
so these fifteen days when I wasn't here,
you were quite happy, weren't you, tell me?
Why don't you understand how these few days passed
steeped in the pain of a thousand days!


Listen, do me one favor!
Will you take me and leave me at a mental hospital?
I'm truly going mad each day
in your love, in this devotion!


Please, don't abandon me!
Stay with everyone else, in peace and boundless joy!
Removing this madwoman to a distance, you'll feel great relief!


Someday I'll be well again.
I'll love some other person then!
Just watch, I'll love them madly!
That day someone else from another home will come close!