I seem to have loved you alone
In different forms in different times
Life after life, age after age
Without any break.
My heart, spellbound forever,
Has made garlands of songs
You have accepted them as presents
And put on your neck
Life after life, age after age
Without any break.
As often as I hear
The stories of past loves
The sorrows and joys of passion
Of separation and union
As I go through those stories
Through endless time
What I see to emerge
Through the mists of the past
Is your lovely form
Steady as a star.
Together we have drifted
Along the twin flow of love
From the primeval source
Of the human heart
We have played together
Amidst millions of lovers
Happy in union
And crying in separation -
The same old love
Appearing in ever new forms.
Today that endless love
Has culminated in you
And lies at your feet
In its myriad splendors.
All the joys men have felt
All the sorrows they have suffered
And all their loves
All the sweet memories
Have mingled in one love
In one song is being sung
What all the poets have sung.
