Featured Poem: Gitanjali 9 by Rabindranath Tagore

This week's Featured Poem is Gitanjali 9 by Rabindranath Tagore and read by Rachael.

For October all our Featured Poems will be selected from the poetry collection Gitanjali by Rabindranath Tagore. The poems within this collection explore the theme and philosophy of devotion and the light and darkness which often accompany such ideas.

This poetry collection features on this year's Reader Bookshelf. For more information, a link can be found here: https://www.thereader.org.uk/the-reader-bookshelf-faqs/

Gitanjali 9
I’ll no longer bear on my shoulder
The burden that was me!
I’ll no longer keep myself poor,
Staying indoors endlessly!
Leaving the load I’ve been carrying
At His feet, I’ll go out of the door.
I’ll no longer be what I was
And keep talking needlessly
I’ll no longer bear on my shoulder
The burden that was me!
He will fulfill my desires,
And then part, snuffing his lamp,
In the twinkling of an eye!
I’ll not profane Him by refusing
What He gives with
His own hands I’ll no longer be happy with what rings
Without the music of His love
I’ll no longer bear on my shoulder
The burden that is me!

by Rabindranath Tagore