Unending Love
Rabindranath Tagore
I seem to have loved you in numberless
forms, numberless times...
In life after life, in age after age,
forever.
My spellbound heart has made and remade the
necklace of songs,
That you take as a gift, wear round your
neck in your many forms,
In life after life, in age after age,
forever.
Whenever I hear old chronicles of love,
it's age old pain,
It's ancient tale of being apart or
together.
As I stare on and on into the past, in the
end you emerge,
Clad in the light of a pole-star, piercing
the darkness of time.
You become an image of what is remembered
forever.
You and I have floated here on the stream
that brings from the fount.
At the heart of time, love of one for
another.
We have played along side millions of
lovers,
Shared in the same shy sweetness of
meeting, the distressful tears of farewell,
Old love but in shapes that renew and renew
forever.
Today it is heaped at your feet, it has
found its end in you.
The love of all man's days, both past and
forever.
Universal joy, universal sorrow, universal
life.
The memories of all loves merging with this
one love of ours,
And the songs of every poet, past and
forever.