Rabindranath Tagore

"I seem to have loved you

in numberless forms,

numberless times,

in life after life,

in age after age,

forever.

My spellbound heart has

made and remade the

necklace of songs

that you take as a gift,

wear 'round your neck

in your many forms,

in life after life,

in age after age,

forever.

Whenever I hear

old chronicles of love,

its age-old pain,

its ancient tale of being

apart or together.

As I stare on and on

into the past,

in the end you emerge,

clad in the light of a

pole-star piercing the

darkness of time:

You become an image of

what is remembered,

forever.

You and I have floated here

on the stream that brings

from the fount.

At the heart of time,

love of one for another.

We have played alongside

millions of lovers,

shared in the same

shy sweetness of meeting,

the same distressful tears

of farewell;

Old love but in shapes

that renew and renew

forever.

Today it is heaped at your feet,

it has found its end in you

the love of all man’s days

both past and forever:

universal joy,

universal sorrow,

universal life.

✨

The memories of all loves

merging with this One

Love of ours;

And the songs

of every Poet past

and forever."

Rabindranath Tagore,

Unending Love