Fireflies 225 - 232 [German translation]

225

Like my heart's pain that has long missed its meaning,

the sun's rays robed in dark hide themselves under the ground.

Like my heart's pain at love's sudden touch,

they change their veil at the spring's call

and come out in the carnival of colours,

in flowers and leaves.

226

My life's empty flute

waits for its final music

like the primal darkness

before the stars came out.

227

Emancipation from the bondage of the soil

is no freedom for the tree.

228

The tapestry of life's story is woven

with the threads of life's ties

ever joining and breaking.

229

Those thoughts of mine that are never captured by words

perch upon my song and dance.

230

My soul to-night loses itself

in the silent heart of a tree

standing alone among the whispers of immensity.

231

Pearl shells cast up by the sea

on death's barren beach, —

a magnificent wastefulness of creative life.

232

The sunlight opens for me the world's gate,

love's light its treasure.

• Artist:Rabindranath Tagore