Jan 11, 2012

Your breeze unbridled

তোমার খোলা হাওয়া
Tomar khola hawa
(audio)

Unfurling sails to your breeze unbridled
Unfastening my boat from its moors
Tearing away all its tethers
I am willing to sink and go under

The morning goes by in vain
Dusk too follows in its wake
Do not, o please do not keep me
Chained to the shore

I keep awake through night and day
For the One who will steer my boat
While the waves toy with me
Keep tossing me around

The storm I will befriend
Fearing not the frown of its brow
O, let me go, let me now go
I’d breathe a sigh of relief
If only I could find a gale
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4 comments:

  1. Rumela SenguptaJanuary 11, 2012 at 7:34 PM

    "tearing away tethers" phrase is courtesy Suman Dasgupta whose own version is as follows:

    Your breath of fresh air do I
    Catch on as I set sail my boat
    All tethers prepared am I to tear
    Ready am I to drown,
    O ready I am for it today.

    My morning have I whiled away
    And my evening was all but the same ---
    O hold not me now
    That am I so near my end.

    Now am I wide awake
    All along my night
    Hoping to steal a glance
    Of You, O dear oarsman.
    While these waves
    With all their contempt
    Keep on swaying my mind.

    Will I embrace even a tempest
    My resolve not wilt at its frown
    Do let me fly like a kite
    Like Your gust let me be blown.

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  2. AnonymousJune 11, 2012 at 9:50 AM

    wonderful :)

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  3. UnknownMarch 11, 2013 at 10:57 AM

    I have uploaded this song on youtube:
    http://youtu.be/Auu0jcTUAf8
    where I have used Sri Suman Dasgupta's translation for non-Bengalee people to get the meaning of the song. Thank you.

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  4. mirzaJanuary 5, 2020 at 1:33 AM

    I added the Sri Suman Dasgupta's version on Gaan bangla video of this song - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBEgc8znyG0

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