Eternal Love - a poem by Rabindranath Tagore

What if you have loved this person before — in other lifetimes, other ages, other forms — and simply recognise them again? That is the question at the heart of this extraordinary poem by the Nobel laureate Tagore, written in Bengal in 1890 and still impossible to read without choking up. Not a love poem about passion. A love poem about souls.Eternal Love - by Rabindranath TagoreI may have loved you in many forms, many times, life after life, age after age, forever. Now my soul spins these words to adorn you with a garland of my lovesong And you accept this gift, joyously - and wear in your many forms.life after life, in age after age, forever.When I hear about the agonies of love lost, I turn to look back into the past, And from this night, you emerge, a bright-star in the darkness of time: An image of what I remembered forever.You and I have floated here on this stream of love, alongside millions of lovers, sharing the same sweetness of our first meeting, the same distressful tears of our farewell — Our love so old is but a timeless love, it renews and renews forever.Today all of it is here, in its full glory - heaped at your feet, it has found its end in you. The memories of all the loves of the past become one with this love of ours with the songs of every poet, now and forever.XXX