Sometimes

Sometimes, I don't know why, deep in my heart, a thought arrives, 
As if you have been created just for me,
You were wandering among the stars before we met,
You have been asked to visit the earth just for me.

Sometimes deep in my heart, a thought arrives, 
That these eyes and this body belong just to me,
This gracefully dense shade of hair is meant just for me,
These lips and these arms belong just to me.

Sometimes deep in my heart, a thought arrives, 
As if somewhere on the road, a marital bugle is blowing,
It is our first night and I am lifting your bridal cover,
You are in my arms, so shy and still smiling!!

Sometimes deep in my heart, a thought arrives, 
Will you love me the same for the rest of our lives?
Will you look at me with the same awe and wonder?
I know you are yet so “unfamiliar” but still, Oh yes still,
Sometimes deep in my heart, a thought arrives,
Sometimes deep in my heart, a thought arrives.

(Written originally in hindi by the great Sahir Ludhiyanvi saab in 1976.)
-(kb/translated/09-03-2018) 😊