Triveni Journal
1927 | 11,233,916 words
Triveni is a journal dedicated to ancient Indian culture, history, philosophy, art, spirituality, music and all sorts of literature. Triveni was founded at Madras in 1927 and since that time various authors have donated their creativity in the form of articles, covering many aspects of public life....
BY KAZI NAZRUL ISLAM
(Rendered by Basudha Chakravarty from Bengali)
Oh my river of deep water,
Ever since my birth I have been
Floating with you.
Your flood swept away the house I had built:
Then I squatted over the outlying
land you had thrown up; but you
flooded that land too!
Now I have lost all and float
constantly over your water.
If you break my house, I may possibly have it ;
But how is it you have broken my heart?
The heart can not be had once it is lost:
If it be lost in ebb-tide, it is
not got in flow-tide.
For when you break the shores
You break only one of them;
But when you break the heart,
You break upon both of its edges.
And when the heart breaks, nothing like land
outlying in a river is left.