Balkos de Paper
Tagore
I put the paper boats one by one in the swift stream every day.
I wrote my name and the name of the village where I lived in big black letters on the paper boat.
I hope people living in different places can get this paper boat and know who I am.
I put the beautiful flowers growing in the garden on my boat.
I hope these dawn flowers can be safely brought to the shore at night.
I threw the paper boat into the water and looked up at the sky.
I saw a small cloud covered with white sails of the wind.
I wonder what my playmates are in the sky. Put these boats down and race with me!
When night came, my face was buried in my arm,
I dreamed that my boat was floating slowly under the midnight starlight.
The sleeping fairy sat on the boat with a basket full of dreams.