gulab khandelwal selected poems

Do not stop these tears, my son!
Let them flow.
Let the eyes speak what the heart feels.

I understand this language better.
Only rarely, I get entangled in words.
It is true,
I have never uttered a word,
But there was never a time,
When you were not in my thoughts.
Look at those millions and millions of people,
Who have ideas but no language,
Pearls of feelings,
But no strings of words to make a garland.
The gift of expression
With which I have blessed you,
Is the proof of my love for you,
Why don’t you understand,
I have always been seeing you in this very garb,
Although, it is true,
I am eternally unseen, eternally unheard,
Eternally unknown?