When all on a sudden I meet you
In drought-laden wide wide world
Rain drops create thirst and aspiration
A few shy saplings open their petals
This is love.
Clouds are chained by cruel hot summer
You walk across the vast wilderness of drought
We’ll meet tomorrow with the rain-laden cloud of hope
I keep my blind emotion treasured in my heart.
Days pass away painting deep water-coloured dreams
Night passes keeping awake under the rule of darkness
We’ll meet tomorrow. Desire lives like rainful clouds
This is love.
Compassionate cloud, listen,
You know how this inexperienced farmer
Is scorched to burn you
Burnt soil only enliven love for a dense shower
With much apprehension, you must admit
You enter in his burnt-down heat once in a blue-moon
You offer your love like a life-long dreams.
Translated by Siddidue Mahmudur Rahman