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....
Love, Life and Creation
Gopal Bhaumik (Rendered by the Author from the Original in Bengali)
By GOPAL BHAUMIK
(Rendered by the Author from the original in Bengali)
The Time for creation goes,
There is no rain:
With eyes on the barren fields,
The peasant sees
The phantom of the coming famine;
While there is only the storm
Brewing in my heart of hearts.
The Time is bad and barren,
And Loveless is the heart:
Those whom I sought for,
With fire burning in my eyes,
Went away leaving me forlorn.
All my love,
Like the molten gold,
Got frozen in the realm of snows,
And stood before me,
In a horrifying shape,
While Time struggled on
Like a person diseased.
The drought for the peasant will end,
It will rain in the coming ear;
In the granary he will store fresh crops
Born of barren furrows made with thousand ploughs.
Even on that day
I shall rivet my eyes,
On to the firmament
In expectation of rain,
Waiting silently for the Time of Creation
To ring with the song of rain.