রানী, তোর ঠোঁট দুটি মিঠি
রানী, তোর মধুখানা দিঠি
রানী, তুই মণি তুই ধন,
তোর কথা ভাবি সারাক্ষণ।
দীর্ঘ সন্ধ্যা কাটে কী করিয়া?
সাধ যায় তোর কাছে গিয়া
চুপিচাপি বসি এক ভিতে
ছোটোছোটো সেই ঘরটিতে।
ছোটো হাতখানি হাতে করে
অধরেতে রেখে দিই ধরে।
ভিজাই ফেলিয়া আঁখিজল
ছোট সে কোমল করতল।

YOU SEEMED from afar
titanic in your mysterious majesty of terror.
With palpitating heart I stood before your presence.
Your knitted brows boded ill
and sudden came down the blow
with a growl and a crash.
My bones cracked,
with bowed head I waited
for the final fury to come.
It came.
And I wondered, could this be all of the menace?
With your weapon held high in suspense
you looked mightily big.
To strike me you came down
to where I crouched low on the ground.
You suddenly became small
and I stood up.
From thence there was only pain for me
but no fear.
Great you are as death itself,
but your victim is greater than death.

MY THOUGHTS shimmer with these shimmering leaves and my heart sings with the touch of this sunlight; my life is glad to be floating with all things into the blue of space, into the dark of time.