Pledged to each night your days
pledged to each night your days,
your sundry drems, sodden
range from rivers to changing skies
these still waters reek of dust
or, alternatively, are fragrant
at home and abroad
in inns and parks
on buses or trains
you dance away
Dance, and dancing
shake off your body
You've taken off time to don speed
shed flesh to wear blood
resplendent in melody
yours is the realm of gold
lost in your dance, you are frenzied
a runaway, unshackled
pledging your days to each night
how long will you dance, you man of wings
how long, the sun-bound one, will you dance?
Translated by Pradip Acharjya
poem by Prem Narayan Nath
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