You had walked, singing a song;
You'd asked me to sing along.
From a distance, halted, I've observed;
But bashfully, proximate I did not come.

There'd been doubt, there'd been shyness and fear;
"Impossible that You are mine" was I thinking.
Consciousness has arrived, my error has gone off;
Now, on the path Yourself do I search for.

I have roamed about searching in woodlands large
And on the snow of mountains most far-flung.
Not having found in groves or jungles broad,
At present time, in the mind I explore.
Translated from Bengali

GÁN GEYE TUMI PATH CALECHILE
BALECHILE KAŃT́HA MELÁTE
DÚRE THEKE ÁMI DÁṊŔIYE DEKHECHI
KÁCHE ÁSINIKO LAJJÁTE

CHILO LÁJ BHAY CHILO SAḾSHAY
BHÁVIYÁCHI TUMI ÁPANÁR NAY
BHRAM SARE GECHE SAMVIT ESECHE
ÁJKE TOMÁY KHUṊJI PATHE

KHUṊJE BEŔIYECHI ARAŃYÁNIITE
SUVISTIIRŃA GIRI HIMÁNIITE
NÁ PEYE BÁHIRE VANE KÁNTÁRE
KHOṊJ KARI ÁJ MANETE

11-06-1985