Destiny Awaken

This country of yours is your motherland,

She is calling out to you.

This is a bond that can never be severed

The scent of the soil:

How can you fail to remember?

No matter where you wander

You are bound to return

In new paths, in every sigh…

To your forlorn heart

Someone will say…

This land of yours…

…is your motherland!

She is calling out to you.

This is a bond that can never be severed

Life is telling you—

You have achieved everything—

Now what’s left?

All happiness has been showered on you,

But you’re far from your home.

Come, return O wanderer

Where at least someone

Will call you their own,

And will call out to you.

That very same country

Is your motherland!

She calls you…

This is a bond that can never be severed

This moment has hidden in it…

a whole century of life.

Don’t ask why in the road

Has come a fork with two ways

You are the one who must choose the path—

You must choose…

Which direction to take;

Which path leads to your true abode?

This country, your soil

It’s you motherland!

She calls out to you

This is a bond that can never be severed.

Swades

Re-Typed and published here by me.

07/10/09- 6:16PM