Let Me Touch the Flower of Thy Feet - Visitor's Poem

by Barnali Saha
(Nashville, TN, USA)

Translation of Rabindra Nath Tagore's "Chorono Dhorite Diogo Amare" by Barnali Saha

Let me touch the flower of thy feet
Don’t taketh it away
I will embrace them with the veils of life and death

The load of stale wishes and anticipation
I carry the burden to and fro
Make thy garland by thyself
Do not scatter me away

Full bloomed wish and pain
Save their death by slaying them
Let the last victory rest with that victorious one
Let him lose to thy generous self

The sold out days and nights
Wail with me in my tiring heart
Make me a part of you
And put that garland of death about my neck
Let me touch the flower of thy feet
Don’t taketh it away.