Swatantra Sonnet 64 Poem by Hassanal Abdullah

You start walking towards me from that side, I start
walking towards you from this side. I start singing
a melody, you start reciting some sweet lines
of your favorite poems. I walk, you walk. I
sing, you sing. You smile, I smile. You display your heart
setting your foot forward, I display mine bringing
a joint melody in our life; eye draws eye signs.

Hand in hand, hope lives with delectable desires;
I love you, you love me—mixing each others' love,
let the flowers be blooming, sunlight be scented—
together, we shine the mystic moon in the sky.
Let's shed fast our ever ascending quenchless fires.
Cooing, calling; falling in love—robin and dove—
as we walk toward each other, arms extended!


Translated from the Bengali by the poet