My Flower of Enchantment

Samir Dass

Original poem: Binoy Majumder

 

My flower of enchantment, as if chocolate, I satisfy

My thirst absorbing its essence instead of devouring it,

I forget my long thirst in invention, in love.

Much have I thought, much have I learnt in my heart, lacerated by unending torment,

What ache is, what is deep blue –

 

Of hearts, of the universe; what the stoical bird is.

Or a dragonfly that flies away spreading its glassy wings.

Flies away breathing over the heart of the young man.

Enraptured in sickness, I enjoy the scenery, I see at the window

The universe salivate in the guise of the wind.

I’m hypnotized; you flew away; come back, come back, Chaka,

In a chariot, in victory, come in eternal poetry.

We will be the song in the saint land, will be love,

Will mingle into the universe being abstract symphony.