Swapnamodir Neshay Mesha E Unmottota (Delight in Insanity?)

This is Kausik's second contribution to the poetry site. The original bengali poem is by Tagore. Note the power and beauty in the original poem. Kausik has done a good job, we think, in preserving the power and rhythm of the original work.
What do you think?

the poem in bengali
Delight in Insanity?

This madness woven with an intoxicating dream - 
It electrifies my senses like a swift lightning stream. 
Oh! What a raging fire courses through my veins; 
My body and mind writhe in an excruciating pain! 
I forget my self in the wild, howling tempest, 
And drown in the flooding waters, young, virile, restless. 
Pointing at the horizon, waves surge in my heart 
And weep in eloquent gestures - without a single word.

[The original copyright for this poem is with the Vishwabharathi Publications. The copyright for this translation is with Kausik]


 
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