Tue 12 Sep 2006
This is a collection of transalations from Hindi poetry by Rekha Singhal. A wonderful human being at heart, she takes her eloquent pen and has captured all her emotions after the loss of her husband in a beautiful collection of Hindi poetry called Life lines.
Mrs. Singhal recently published her collection of poems, poignant and full of emotion after the young age of 50.
Enjoy the collection.
Sunset of Life
If you were with me
in the sunset of life
Neither would I wander in the darkness,
Nor would I be this lonely
Together we would walk,
Far far away
Better than any love that exists in this world
Even tired legs reach some destination
Wouldn’t need the daylight,
Would deck our home with stars
If you were with me
In the sunset of life
You would whisper something,
something I may not fully hear
I’d say something to you,
And you would merely smile
We’d live smiling and laughing away
In the sunset of life.
On the breaking of a pleasant dawn
With a hot cup of tea in our hands
Tea is sweet from your memory and
Memories are full of stories -
Some of our own and
some reliving our children’s childhood
Lost in the dreams of the pleasant past
In the sunset of life.
Even if someone near
Hurt my heart’s feelings
Snatched away an old woman’s dreams
Even then I wouldn’t
let the monsoons cloud my eyes
In the sunset of life.
