Your Evening., My Dawn. Puja Karmoker

 Bimala, are you listening?
 Or have you already fallen asleep?
Where is your restlessness now?
Has your playful spirit
Faded away so soon?
Are you hearing me, Bimala?
Do my words no longer      
Reach your ears?

Ah! You are nearly lifeless,
And I alone remain—falsely awake!
Bimala, perhaps you do not know,
It is nightfall for me now—
While you, lost in slumber,
Will awaken soon to your dawn.

 You had once made a promise at your dusk,
Bimala, do you remember?
Do you? You said you'd light the lamp,
And I had replied—
In that very glow,
I would close my eyes.