Your Words

O you unseen one, let your words

Bring freedom to my body and my mind.

Your world is a festivity of lights

I am only an earthen lamp in its midst

Please light it up

With the flame of your wish

Eternal and bright.

As your spring wind writes songs

In so many colours

On the flowers and foliage all around

You fill the core of my being with your breath

Filling its emptiness

With the blessings of your music

Helping it with your benign hand

Translation of the devotional song – Arup tomar bani/ange amar chitte amar mukti dik se ani by Rabindranath Tagore. Best recording of this song is by Hemanta Mukherji. The original is with its swaralipi or notation at http://www.rabindra-rachanabali.nltr.org/node/3707.