Dropping like a drop

I am dropping like a drop,

all the way from the sky.

So long, we have been together..

So long, we have lived together…

O cloud, why do you now leave me?

Do you let me go for what I have become?

I am dropping like a drop,

all the way from the sky.

I don’t know where I will go

…will I be lost in the ocean?

…will I be hit by the earth?

…will I be caught by the leaf, or

…will I disappear into fog?

I don’t know where I will be, but

I know I will change.

I know I will be nothing what I am today.

then, why do you leave me, O cloud?

why do you let me go?

I am dropping like a drop,

all the way from the sky.

they say it is my destiny which I must be.

it is the circle of life that i must complete.

it is my journey to come back to you, O cloud.

why then, you leave me, when I am with you.

…why do you let me go?

I am dropping like a drop,

all the way from the sky.

• Bansri

07/12/2015