I will meet you again…
Here is an attempt to translate Amrita Pritam’s one beautiful poem and a youtube song version of the same. She was one of the most infamous and romantic women writers of pre-partition India and like her poems her life story was also unusual with many parallels to the stories of Frida Khalo and Diego Rivera. Locked between an unrequited love which she never had, and a dedicated lover who dedicated his life for her, she created beautiful poetry full of imagination, hope and magical realism… Enjoy!
I, will meet you again!
Where? How? Don’t know(really)
May be! like a flicker, in your thoughts
I will land on your canvas
Or! on your canvas
like a single mysterious line (among many)
will silently be starring at you!
I, will meet you again…
Maybe! just becoming a ray of sun
I will mix up in your colors
and sitting in the embrace of those colors
will fill up your canvas
Don’t know! How…,and where(who knows)…
But I will meet you for sure…
Or! I will become a spring of water
And just as the spring water sprinkles
I will dissolve with those droplets
on your body
And , just by becoming that ‘coolness’
I will embrace your body…
I really don’t know anything more!
But I do know for sure
that whatever time will manifest
this presence will go along with me
When this body crumbles
everything crumbles…
But these threads of memories
are all connected to the end of the universe
I will seek those endings,
and will weave those threads
and I will meet you again,
I will meet you again, for sure…
Main Tenu Fer Milangi
Kithe? Kis tarah? Pata nahi
Shayad tere Takhiyul di Chinag banke
Tere Canvas te Utrangi
Ya Khore teri Canvas dey Utte
Ik Rahasmayi Lakir Banke
Khamosh Tenu Takdi Rawangi
Main Tenu Fer Milangi…
Jaa Khore Suraj ki Loo banke
Tere Ranga vich Ghulangi
Jaa Ranga diyan Bahwa vich beth ke
Teri Canvas nu Wlangi
Pata nahi Kis Trah-Kithe
Par Tenu Zarur Milangi
Jaa Khore Ik Chashma bani Howangi
Te jivan Jharneya da Paani udd da
Main Pani diyan Boondaa-n
Tere Pind te Malangi
Te Ik Thandak jahi banke
Teri Chhaati de naal Lagangi
Main Hor Kuch nahi Jaandi
Par Ena Jaandi
Ki Waqt jo v karega
Ae Janam Mere naal Turega
Ae Jism Mukkda hai
Tan Sab Kuch Mukk janda
Par Cheteyan dey Dhaage
Kaayenaat di Kana ude Hunde
Main unha kana nu chunagi
Dhageyan nu walangi
Te tenu main fer milangi
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