Burning on and on all night long (Song by Kabir Suman, Translation: Arka Chattopadhyay)

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Burning on and on all night long

Grey bluish, my star, alit

Grace a shade of her colour dearest

Bless a gleam of her light please

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Perhaps no glowworm to warm my city

Perhaps, could bend on that blue fire, had it ever been

All that had never been, never is

What if that everything remains unattained?

Let it be!

Grace the colour of unattaining my dear

Bless the dear light, unattaining

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Oh all too pale these days and nights

Can’t find a dear colour around me

Can’t give you anything

Nothing could I bring into colour, otherwise

Would have dipped in future’s light, not to be

This pale grey, my way I seek

Grace a shade of this, my longing

Blessing the dear light, unattaining

Grace the future’s gleam my dear

Grace the future’s gleam