Let's Meet Hereafter!

Original: An untitled Najrul Geeti by Kazi Nazrul Islam
Translation: Mohammad Omar Farooq

8/16/99

Note: The rhymed translation for this one does not exactly follow the original pattern.

Transliteration   Translation

Porojonome dekha hobe priyo!
Bhuliyo more hetha bhuliyo!!

E jonome jaha bola holo na,
Ami bolibo na, tumiyo bolo na!
Janaile prem koriyo cholona,
Jodiyo ashi fire, bedona diyo.

Hethay nimeshe shopon furay,
Rater kushum prate jhore jay,
Bhalo na bashite ridoy shukay,
Bish jala-bhora hetha omiyo.

Hetha hiya othe birohe akuli,
Milone harai dudinete bhuli,
Ridoye jothay prem na shukay,
She omoray more shorio.

 
We will meet again in the life Hereafter;
Here, please, forget me with a simple laughter.

Anything that remained unsaid,
I won't say; Let you also keep silence;
If I offer my love, turn me away;
If I persist, hurt me, in pretense.

Dream is broken abruptly here,
The evening's bud sheds in the dawn;
The heart dries up before love is savored;
The ambrosia here has the taste of poison.

In separation here, heart longs in agony;
When together, quickly we go apart;
Where the fountain of love is never dry,
In that everlasting Garden, remember to seek my heart.