Eagam Khaling
After dating for many years, a young boy and a girl were about to tie the knot. Both families were preparing for their marriage. They looked like the happiest couple in the world. They were arranging everything for the wedding ceremony by themselves.
Three days before the wedding, the boy died in a car accident while visiting the girl for urgent work. That day, the girl could not understand why she felt only like sleeping. Even though she knew the boy was coming to meet her, she involuntarily fell fast asleep. The girl knew nothing about the boy’s death. As soon as the boy died in the accident, his spirit instantly left his body. The boy realized that he had only twenty minutes to live after which he must leave this world. He went straight from the accident site to meet the girl. But on the way, evil spirits tried to astray him. He somehow managed to escape from them and reached the girl’s room.
The girl was sleeping. The boy hesitated to wake the girl. He told everything in a breath but she could not hear anything. The boy had a strong desire to dance with his beloved at their wedding, but as that was not possible now, he held the sleeping girl’s hand and started dancing, asking her to wake up, like this (Lyric: Wake Up Once):
Wake up, my love,
Let’s dance once, love is eternal,
Can you hear me?
I am here to tell you how much I love you.
You have no idea how much I will miss you.
This is God’s moment.
Your silence is really killing me.
When I thought about you,
I cried alone in silence.
Did you feel the dew on your face?
They were my emotions for you.
All the falling stars are my desires to reach you,
Touch you.
Tell me,
How far can I go without dancing once with you?
Wake up, my love,
Let’s dance once,
Love can never die.
Can you see me in your dreams?
I am here to show your love in my heart.
May you have no idea how difficult it is to say goodbye!
This is a precious moment.
Your silence is really defeating me.
It’s now time to say Goodbye.
O, ye’, do always remember, love can never die.
I am whispering to you last—
People come and go,
But their marks of love remain forever.
God! Tell me,
How could you take her to deep sleep?
My love, wake up for the sake of love,
Please, wake up!
O no!
Good Bye!
Don’t cry…
After a few months of the accident, the girl finds the dream that they had dreamt together entangling with her. The girl in the lyric (Dream Go Away) below requests her dream to leave this world so that his late boyfriend’s (fiancé) soul would get eternal peace.
O Dream! Go,
Go away up in the sky.
O Dream! Fly one to one,
All in the air. Dream! Fly divine,
I can’t go with you.
O Dream! Go away up in the sky,
I can’t hold you anymore.
O Dream! Don’t fall, go high,
You will be around the stars,
I am setting you free.
If you meet my love in space,
Tell him that I don’t cry in his absence,
I will meet him in the next life.
O Dream! Don’t cry, go high,
You will be between the hearts,
I am setting you free.
O Dream! Go,
Go away up in the sky.
Dream! Don’t cry, say goodbye.
O Dream! Fly one to one,
All in the air. Dream! Fly divine.
O Dream! Go away,
Please, obey me,
I can’t live with you anymore.
(Eagam Khaling is a writer from Darjeeling)