First came across this Bengali poet, novelist, musician, painter and playwright in an article. I looked up on his poems and came across a very beautiful one titled "Unending Love" from his Gitanjali poetry collection. It instantly became a favourite of mine, which I read out in my speech on my cousin's wedding.
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.
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