May 20, 2013

Release the gates, my playmate

 খেলার সাথি, বিদায়দ্বার খোলো
Khelar shathi, biday-dwar kholo (audio: Suchitra Mitra)

Release the gates, my playmate
As our heyday comes to an end
Bid me goodbye

There is a faraway echo
Urging the tramp to depart
Here, our happy carnival ends

May 19, 2013

I wait to hear from you

Boshe achhi he kobe shunibo tomaro banee (audio: Subinoy Roy)

I wait to hear from you,
your heart speaking to me.
I long to travel through the world with
my full, blessed heart.

When will my soul awake
and sing you a song of love?
When shall I go door to door
of the earth,
bring the love of men and women
at your own home?

Nobody listens, nobody wakes up
songs die in the desert.
I have no strength to make a song
with your force and light.

If you don't speak through me,
what can my words mean?

It's all yours, I shall echo
because I know nothing.
I shall call all by your name,
bring them close to my heart.

May 16, 2013

With one salutation, master

একটি নমস্কারে, প্রভু
Ekti nomoshkare probhu (audio)

With one salutation, master
Let my body embrace my earth.

Let my heart bow down
juicy as a rainy cloud
yielding at your door.

With one salutation
let all songs combine
to make a silent, single sea.

Like a swan song let me fly
day and night to the end of death.



May 7, 2013

Eternal sunshine

 হে চিরনূতন, আজি এ দিনের প্রথম গানে
He chiro nuton, aji e diner prothom gaane (audio)

Evergreen sun,
make me bloom
to your first song.

Your words give me hope.
they sound like eternity.
Your blessings last me.

In this golden moment
let the sky fill with a lovely wind.
Give me new air to breath.
Birth me again.

Mend my broken and weak.
Flood my old and dim
with new sunshine.