Address (In memory of Laxmi Rai …) and The Nine Some Hues

 

Address

(In memory of Laxmi Rai …)

The eternal love you gave birth to — I must cherish.
The beautiful flowers and saplings of thoughts you planted — I must nurture.
The loving “me” that you cared for and protected — I must continue to care for.
Most difficult of all… I must console the heart that remembers you and weeps!

You had adorned me with beautiful rainbow colors,
You had lifted me to soar together in the sky of love.
Still, you dwell in my heart,
Even in this many-colored life, you remain by my side.
Soaked in your boundless love — you are eternal, immortal, everlasting!

May I keep swimming in the ocean of love you created,
Even if my wings are clipped, may I still fly in the sky of love you built.
May I fulfill the incomplete dreams you left behind.
(When you were here, with you, I smiled and laughed.)
Now, remembering you (after you are gone, how can I laugh?),
May I still weep many, many tears!

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The Nine Some Hues

When free from suffering, a person tends to get lost in the seven-colored world.
The seven colors are the hues of the rainbow.
And the other two colors? They belong to the multi-colored pheasant, the Danphe bird.
But what are they like?

Beyond the seven colors, the eighth is the color of grief —
When unbearable sorrow strikes, a person feels an empty, colorless void.
Through tearful eyes, that sorrow itself becomes the eighth color.

 

The Nine Some Hues is mysterious:

Even amid countless pains, wounds, separations, deprivations, agonies, and unbearable losses —
A human being still chooses to live.
That indomitable will to survive is the invisible, wondrous, ninth color.

Thus, life becomes

The Nine Some Hues (naurangi).

 

 

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