Deadbeat Dad

(1347)  Aji kena ele amar mane

Why came You into my mind this day?
All the flowers, they have fallen down;
In psyche's bower only thorns remain.

Once there was floral beauty,
There was honey, there was pleasing subtlety.
My sweetness, it was overflowing;
In those days, though invited, You did not appear.

Fragrant was my altar, decorated well;
Had You but come and graced me then.
Even now I think about it without end;
In a mental recess, pain is kept, suppressed.

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