The Verse of Staying Behind

 
I don't want anyone else to dwell in your world;
if they're there, I'll push them away completely, remove them as far as I can.
All of you is mine, I want every bit of you!
I won't let that belong to anyone else,
I won't let anyone else have you!
I won't hide anything—whatever's in my heart.
Whoever you're keeping close, I won't mistakenly try to take them away!
I'll only love you more, embrace everything while keeping it all hidden!


Look at that moon there,
how it weaves enchantment!
Have you ever seen it do that before?
I too will become that moon...across your sky,
I'll dig up magic, I'll touch you,
I'll caress you, love you—whatever I can, however much I can.
Eyes swollen, lips pouting...you'll see just right, at the right time
I'll win you over. I will have you, I will!
No one can become me...because I'm declaring it so!


Listen, don't you ever stay so busy again!
If you're so busy, whom will I torment?
Getting my messages with irritation...hearing the ding dong ding sounds
and cursing me a hundred times in your mind—who else will do that?
My heart feels such longing to tease you a little more...for a whole lifetime!


Look, you're the one who says life is so brief!
Here, sitting with folded hands and wasting days is terribly forbidden!
Then tell me now, when else will I get
the time to torment you so much?
If even this moment slips away, then tell me, who will bring
such fresh new demands to you?


Look, you figure it out...I'll become
your cuckoo in the late evening, or else a sparrow.
In weary hours I'll call to you with chirping...
Dried chili with leftover rice, lentil fritters with fish curry...I'll be that!
Elephant apple pickle, lips puckered with sourness...I'll be that,
or else I'll be the last sip in your coffee mug!
People who come...and go, you'll find many such!
But one who'll accept you and stay beside you even on the last day—
you'll find only me, only me!