Forgive Me I Can't Accept Your Proposal Oforiginal: Gayatri Phukan: Translated By Mr Bibekananda Choudhury Poem by Gayatri Phukan

Forgive me I can't accept your proposal of love

Many things
Are there
Where I have similarities with you
Or even dissimilarities
I like many things that you like
I dislike many things that you like
I cannot draw the line Bordering likes and dislikes
I too like the poems you like
Still I say most courteously
I won't be able to accept
Your proposal of love

There in your heart burns
The poems of
Kabiranjan, Uddipta, Magon Kachari
How majestic is your recitation of poems
I am overwhelmed
I can hear your poems
Throughout the night

Still
Won't be able to do love talk
I won't be able to be a modern beloved

I would be able to be
Beatrice of Dante

Laila of Many

Would be able to be
Panei of Janki

Only for whom
The secret pages of my heart
Would be revealed.

My modern dresses
Cannot change your ancient mind.

You are a modern lover
You do not know
Dante
Majnu
Or
Janki
Sleeping in your heart.

Just at this point
I do not understand you
That is the reason
I won't be able to be your beloved