Sangam Page #8

l can't bear your pain

l married you to make you happy.

"Not to give you pain. But, if you..."

"You haven't given me pain, Radha."

l've brought this upon myself

But why?

Do l need to say?

Then what can l do

to end your suffering?

How do l make you believe me?

"l swear, ever since we got married"

l've thought of no-one else

Look at me... look into my eyes

What do you see?

"l see only love, Radha."

Love and the truth

"But when l touch you, l feel as if"

"someone before me, also touched you"

The thought makes my heart

burn with jealousy

Doubt lurks in the dark shadows

"of my heart, and tears me to pieces"

You look like a dark apparition!

And then l begin to doubt you

"l become desperate, uncontrollable!"

My whole life seems to flounder

l don't know what to do

l can't be angry with you

nor can l blame anyone else

Tell me what to do.

What can l do?

l feel like picking up this gun

and shooting myself

"He shot at himself. Somehow,"

"l clung to him, and he missed"

What should l do?

l can neither live without him

nor can l live with him

That letter is like a dagger

in his hands with which...

he stabs at his own heart

and he stabs at my heart

"l could bear my own pain,"

but l can't bear his pain

l wish...

Have you gone mad?

l came to ask you to take care

of your friend

All he has is my love

and your friendship

The pall of suspicion clouds

my love for him

Maybe he can still cling on

to your friendship

Take care of him

Radha has left!

Radha has gone away somewhere

Gone away? Why don't you say

she has escaped?

Yes! She has escaped

She has escaped from you!

And she has come here

Radha has escaped the cluthes

of your cruelty

Cruelty? How would you know

who was cruel to whom?

What a hell she left me to live in

You don't know what wounds

l carry in my heart

Today these wounds

have been rippen open

l've been betrayed

She has betrayed me!

Radha! My wife

That's a lie

Lie?

ls it a lie?

"Ask her, who is man"

who shadows our life?

Who is he?

Ask her who he is

l know who's more precious to Radha

than anybody else on earth

And l know the shadow

that darkens your lives

Gopal! No!

You know?

And l know who wrote

the letter

Who wrote it?

l wrote it

Now listen to why

l wrote it

l was in love with Radha

Lie!

That's a lie!

Tell me that's a lie

"At least, lie to me!"

And tell me it's a lie

A pity is it isn't a lie

"Till today, l never found the courage"

to tell you the truth

"And today, you haven't the courage"

to hear the truth

The truth is that l loved her dearly.

Just the way you loved her

The only difference was that

"you spoke of it, and l couldn't"

"For years, l stifled my love."

But l never brought it to my lips

Only because you loved Radha

And you were a friend

"For the sake of our friendship,"

l stayed silent

"As with the news of your death,"

my love for Radha was true too

We were even to get married

Then we heard you were alive

l retreated

l sacrificed my love

for my friendship

And Radha became yours. Only yours

"When she entered your home,"

she was pure as the Ganges

"And today, when she has left"

"your house, she is still as pure"

"Now take your gun,"

and pump it into my bosom

"Well done, Gopal"

"A sacrafice, again?"

Just like throwing a tip

at a beggar

l'm not a beggar

l am your friend

l was your friend... but

you never understood me

Or this need never have happened

lf only you had revealed

your feelings...

if only you had spoken

your mind...

three lives would've

been spared this torture

lf only you had let me do

what you have done...

lf only you had told me once...

l would've have stepped

out of your way

"Well, better late than never"

lt can still be done

No! lt cannot be done

"l ask you, and l ask you"

"You who loved me, and"

you who married me

Who gave the two of you the right

to decide about my life again?

What do you think l am?

lt is true that l have loved

Not that l was the first woman

to fall in love

Love can't be helped.

lt happens

Marriage is an article of faith.

One nurtures a marriage

And l have nurtured my faith

Desire is like a flame.

Love burns

But faith has to stand rock solid

l am no wax-doll or some commodity

to be passed on from one to another

Bravo!

"One makes me his sacrificial lamb,"

and now the other too?

There will be no more sacrifices

"The one who must, leaves"

"Before you leave, tell me"

where do l go?

What about my marriage?

Am l to ask someone else

to marry me again?

Am l to ask someone else

to make me his bride again?

"Tell me. Look at me, l'm the bride"

you married and took home

Remember those marriage vows

you and l took before God?

Does one swear by the holy fires

only to be punished like this?

ls a one supposed to suffer

a lifetime for it?

No Radha

Reading a few sacred cantos together

does not make a marriage

Conjugal love is not the union.

That union is the union of hearts

The mating of souls

that climaxes in a bliss

Ours was no real union

The union was between you and...

What have you done?

This is nothing

One of us had to leave

The one who should have left

is leaving

"Remember, you used to say that one"

needs a friend's shoulder to weep upon

And you need a friend

to be one's pallbearer

"My friend, you only left this city."

l'm leaving the world

"Before you left, you took"

a promise from me

Now l ask you for a promise

"Sunder, give Radha back"

The Heaven that was hers

That the Rivers Ganga and Yamuna

may unite and flow...

the River Saraswati must

be sacrificed

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