Beyond Land and Time

Come Back, Suranjana

(Ākāshlinā)

Translated by Chidananda Das Gupta

Don’t go there, Suranjana, I beg of you,

Don’t speak to that young man, over there.

Come back, Suranjana—

In this night of silvery fire stretched across the sky.

Come back to this field, these waves;

Come back to my heart.

Don’t, don’t walk away with that man

Further and further away, into the distance.

What can you have to say to him, to him?

In skies hidden behind skies.

You are like the earth

His love like the grass over it.

Suranjana, your heart is as grass to-day;

The wind stirs beyond the wind,

The sky stretches beyond the skies.