I haven't touched you in ages, haven't seen you for endless years. At the dawn of creation itself when earth still slept in fire's womb, you became a surging ocean and calmed my heart's terrain. Then so many risings, fallings; so many births, deaths— have you forgotten me?
How long since I've seen you! Just twelve days...yet it feels as if life's full measure has run out without you, as if monsoon rains have turned to vapor in the river's blazing heat!
I remember when I was a tree—bark-sari of green, our feelings root to root, so many words, so much closeness. I long so much, you know, to call you...just call you tenderly, to hide my face a little against your chest.
But you won't have it... It's for you I return to this mortal world! The heart that has no room for me— that's the heart I love.
You forget everything, all the memories that remain—they're so precious! Everything's there in your mind, only false me is missing!
If only it could be—to have you for eternity, across endless life's full span... If only you were night, and I darkness's unseen love; you were life, and I all of life's hopes!
But it doesn't happen...life walks the wrong way, you belong to another home; you are terribly dear to me, only I am a stranger to you.
I want to wet your cheek with tears from my eyes, if only then you'd understand how my heart's pain trembles! So I buried that wanting—your joy is my joy, let your sky be fulfilled, and my empty heart.