Feb 12, 2014

How does one suffer this estrangement

E porobashe robe ke haay (audio: Kanika Bandyopadhyay)

How does one suffer this estrangement
Like a nomad at large
The conflict of heart and body
Left in quandary?

In these alien latitudes
I have no one, no home or harbor.
Exposed alone
To my ache, vulnerability

(Another version by Rumela)

Who can stay in this alien land
Who can cope with doubt and despair
Who will hold me in grief and fear
Who will carry me through crisis
No such one I can call my own
In this vast wilderness