Why Didn't You Come

You said you'd come, but didn't you come?
Do you know, believing you would come, wearing my red-bordered sari,
how long I stood waiting at the door?
Why didn't you come? Don't you remember me anymore?

Believing you would come, at spring's welcome with a handful of sweet words,
waiting and waiting, at last I searched for you through every street...still,
why didn't you come, beloved?
You said you would come, didn't you? Have you lost me forever now?

You said you'd come but never came!
Do you know, believing you would come, with the night-wakeful birds
through so many nights of stories as dawn smoothly arrived,
how I stood still gripping the window bars, thinking of waiting for you?
Why didn't you come? Don't you want to search for me anymore?

Still you didn't come, did you?
You know, believing you would come, in waiting for you have passed...
just like this...my twenty-three, twenty-three springs?
Still why didn't you come, beloved?
You said you would come, didn't you? Have you forgotten me then?

You know, believing you would come, with how many Phagun months
did I count days in my spring-colored sari?
If you know this, then why didn't you come? You said you would come, didn't you?
Didn't you want to see me dressed so beautifully?

You said you'd come but alas, you never came!
You know, believing you would come, for how many years
have I sung songs of victory through lifetimes in your name alone?
Oh beloved, why didn't you come? You said you would come!
Can't you find me anymore in even one echo of your name?