The Bard Within

Tabassum finds the bard within, in her poetic tribute to Tagore, on his 159^th birth anniversary, as Special Feature. An exclusive for Different Truths.

You were just there,
Hidden in the deepest core of my soul,
But I could not see you or I failed to see you.
I failed to realise that you were there,
Just inside me, just inside my heart.

But I found you,
In my pain and pleasure,
In my hopes and disappointment,
In my love and passion,
You were just beside me,
But I didn’t look at you,
I didn’t go to you,
You were songs of my passion,
But in my ecstasy, the tune in my heart.
Your tune enthused my music,
Of love and pain.
But now I failed to sing your songs
I do not know how to sing your song

My life has become your songs.
Your Farewell songs.

You are within me
In silence, in solitude,

I try to feel you.
I try to listen to your songs again and again

I read you, I see you in your Arts.

You are not gone.

You are the Bard within…

The Bard Within

In every heart,

Of Bengali soul.

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