It seems I have desired thee in numberless ways, numberless times… <br />In life after life, in age after age… <br />Eternally… <br />My enchanted heart has made and remade the lyrical necklace, <br />Take it as a gift and wear it in thy many guises, <br />In life after life, in age after age… <br />Eternally… <br /> <br />Whenever I hear an ancient dreamy tale, <br />It is eternal pain, <br />It is the timeless tale – being apart, being near. <br />As I stare again and again at the past, <br />In the end thy face emerges, <br />Shining with starlight, <br />Piercing time’s darkness, <br />And revealing an image which I <br />Always remember. <br /> <br />We have drifted here in the stream <br />That springs in lush glades. <br />At time’s heart, desire and tenderness. <br />We have played beside numberless twin hearts. <br />Shared in the same shy sweetness in meeting. <br />The distressful tears at saying farewell, <br />Unending tenderness but in shapes that <br />Renew and renew eternally.<br /><br />Ilania Cyaalá<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/endless-love-a-variation-on-rabindranath-tagore-s-unending-love/
