Paarijat- A Tale of Desideratum Final & Epilogue 88, Feb 13, 2016 - Page 42

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Originally posted by: dqno1

Since you wanted to read it

The poem which was the inspiration for the Locket




UNENDING LOVE

I seem to have loved you in numberless forms,

numberless times,

In life after life,

in age after age,



My spell-bound heart has made and re-made the necklace of songs

That you take as a gift;

wear round your neck in your many forms

In life after life,

in age after age,



Whenever I hear old chronicles of love,

its age-old pain,

Its ancient tale of being apart or together,

As I stare on and on into the past,

in the end you emerge

Clad in the light of a pole-star,

piercing the darkness of time:

You become an image of what is remembered forever.



You and I have floated here on the stream that brings from the fount

At the heart of time,

love of one for another.



We have played alongside millions of lovers,

shared in the same shy sweetness of meeting,

the same distressful tears of farewell

Old love,

but in shapes that renew and renew forever.



Today it is heaped at your feet;

it has found its end in you,

The love of all man's days,

both past and forever:



Universal joy,

universal sorrow,

universal life,

The memories of all loves merging with this one love of ours

And the songs of every poet,

past and forever.


- Tagore