Prologue

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मैं तैनू फ़िर मिलांगी
कित्थे ? किस तरह पता नई

शायद तेरे ताखियल दी चिंगारी बण के
तेरे केनवास ते उतरांगी
जा खोरे तेरे केनवास दे उत्ते
इक रह्स्म्यी लकीर बण के
खामोश तैनू तक्दी रवांगी

(I will meet you yet again
How and where? I don't know that.
Perhaps I could be a
figment of your imagination
Or maybe I will draw myself
As a mysterious line that shouldn't be
On your canvas
Quietly, I will stare at you
And I will meet you again.)

जा खोरे सूरज दी लौ बण के
तेरे रंगा विच घुलांगी

जा रंगा दिया बाहवां विच बैठ के
तेरे केनवास नु वलांगी
ता नही किस तरह कित्थे
पर तेनु जरुर मिलांगी

(Perhaps I will become a ray of sunshine,
And revel in your colours
Or maybe I will paint me on your canvas
I know not how or where
but I will surely meet you.)

जा खोरे इक चश्मा बनी होवांगी
ते जिवें झर्नियाँ दा पानी उड्दा
मैं पानी दियां बूंदा
तेरे पिंडे ते मलांगी
ते इक ठंडक जेहि बण के
तेरी छाती दे नाल लगांगी
मैं होर कुच्छ नही जानदी
पर इणा जानदी हां
कि वक्त जो वी करेगा
एक जनम मेरे नाल तुरेगा

(Maybe I will become a spring
And the water that sprouts from it
I'll rub its droplets on your body
I'll become the coolness from it
That rests on your burning chest
I don't know anything else
But I know this much
That no matter what time does
This life will walk along with me.)

एह जिस्म मुक्दा है
ता सब कुछ मूक जांदा हैं

पर चेतना दे धागे
कायनती कण हुन्दे ने
मैं ओना कणा नु चुगांगी
ते तेनु फ़िर मिलांगी!

(This body? It perishes.
Everything does.
But the threads of memory
Are woven such
That the universe resides in its every bead
I will pick those tiny beads
I will weave the threads
And then.. I will meet you again.)

- Amrita Pritam

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