Why Do You Dwell In My Heart? Poem by Subhas Chandra Chakra

I know you love many things,
You need a lot of them,
Large, Broad, wide, vast,
Diverse, smooth and sublime.

Like every life
You also need a space
Boundless,
like the vast expanses
Of the boundless sky
over the desert
In the moonlit night.


In my heart,
A desert without you
There is but
Vastness of sand,
loftiness of cloud,
Pervasiveness of wind,
Boundless earth,
Wideness of vision and
Fickleness of mist.

The house you need
To accommodate you,
Whole of your desires, and
All of your pains and pleasure,
Is this heart with
Ascent of limbs,
Broadness of mind,
Calmness of composure,
Depth of looks,
Smoothness of breath,
Sublimation of soul-
Without a border,
a barrier, a severance,
a hurdle or any obstruction
The kind of space
You would love to have.


The magnanimity of
Spacious, distant sky
would clear up the
Dust of annoyance
At your heart.
The dream in my life
Will be a sand bank
A couch for you
To repose upon.
The thread of your fantasy
Will find a spool of cloud
To wind around
The orbit of my thoughts.
The cascade of your
Lofty sentiments
Will attain an altitude
To pour down like the
Droplets of rain.
And this is why you would
Dwell for all eternity
Within me and
My heart-
A holy shrine for your soul,
A wide global vision for your eye,
A perpetual abode for your life and,
A sweet home for you as a whole.