শুধু তোমার জন্যে, নির্মলেন্দু গুণ/Shudhu Tomar Jonye, Nirmalendu Goon/ For You Alone, Nirmalendu Goon

                                                                       For You Alone

My god knows how often I have drawn away my hand

Even as I have been about to touch you

Just as I have paused on the brink of telling you about my love

My god knows how many times I have left things unsaid.

Just to hear the gentle knocking of your hand

My ears are drawn like magnets to the door

Hoping you would come at some lonely midnight hour

To call me and say, 'here rise, for I am near!'

And I would be all agog, what do I hear, what is this, my excitement

Making me throw myself at you just as I 

have pictured myself so often

Only my god knows how often.

My god knows, I have gone grey for you,

My god knows, I have gone feverish for you,

My god knows, I will die for you.

Then one day, like my god you too will know,

I was born for you, for you alone.

Nirmalendu Goon