Dúiseacht
Fiú an té atá sona
faigheann sé leid éigin
nó teagmhaíonn ribe fuaime leis
agus pléascann a chroí le tnúthán
nach n-aithníonn sé
ní foláir nó gur ag cuimhneamh atá sé
ar chruthanna ar thug sé grá dóibh
in áit nach bhfuil teacht air
i saol roimhe seo
is a gcló ina chroí i gcónaí is iad ag feitheamh
Kālidāsa कालिदास
leagan Gaeilge Gabriel Rosenstock
Waking
English version by W. S. Merwin & J. Moussaieff Masson
Even the man who is happy
glimpses something
or a hair of sound touches him
and his heart overflows with a longing
he does not recognize
then it must be that he is remembering
in a place out of reach
shapes he has loved
in a life before this
the print of them still there in him waiting