Where Am I At The Present?

Translation of Aami Ekhon Kothay

To My Dear Sister Shukla :Where Am I At The Present?

Don't know dear, where (exactly) I am now
Have come a long way it seems, though
Some known & recognised distance - could travel without woe,
Yet a lot of it unknown and new,
Wrapped inside an enigma of known and unknown, that’s why
Can't recognise this place - where exactly is it!!!

Have I travelled right, or lost my path,
Advancing, even as I 'm unsure,
No co-traveler, no guide by my side - to correct;
Knowing well there is no chance to go back,  I stopped nowhere.
No ways to return – I will never return ever,
Will go on, knowing fully well that I may get lost for ever!!!

If I found the same direction, I had taken then,
If I ever met those co-travelers of mine,
Many of whom have gone so far,
Many  I have overtaken to come this long;
Is it in this hope?
Or, the high of something new kept me traveling ever.  

So said I don’t know; neither I recognize nor I brood,
Where have I reached really!
The day I sit ever with the accounts,
And if all sums of my life would tally;
I will precisely answer the eternal question,
Where exactly I am today at the present.

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