June 11, 2020

I WILL MEET YOU YET AGAIN BY AMRITA PRITAM


I WILL MEET YOU YET AGAIN BY AMRITA PRITAM 

(TRANSLATED FROM THE PUNJABI “MAIN TENU PHIR MILANGI” BY NIRUPAMA DUTT) 

I will meet you yet again 

How and where 

I know not 

Perhaps I will become a 

figment of your imagination 

and maybe spreading myself 

in a mysterious line 

on your canvas 

I will keep gazing at you. 


Perhaps I will become a ray 

of sunshine to be 

embraced by your colours 

I will paint myself on your canvas 

I know not how and where — 

but I will meet you for sure. 


Maybe I will turn into a spring 

and rub foaming 

drops of water on your body 

and rest my coolness on 

your burning chest 

I know nothing 

but that this life 

will walk along with me. 


When the body perishes 

all perishes 

but the threads of memory 

are woven of enduring atoms 

I will pick these particles 

weave the threads 

and I will meet you yet again.