Can You Remember - Mone Ki Pore - a song written by my father

My father Masud Karim was a lyricist, whose many thousands of written lyrics in Bangla songs were played in movies, radio and television programs in Bangladesh. He was a man of poetry and music. A man with humbleness and impeccable character and polite manners, his life was shortened suddenly from cancer, too early in life, when he died in Montreal in 1996. 

The Song's lyric in the video above was written by my father, and sung by a famous Bangladeshi singer MA Shoeb. English translation of this song that I have just completed along with my father's Bangla lyrics is given below. The translation does not come close to the poetic beauty and melancholy that the original lyric depicts, but the essence perhaps be glimpsed and cherished that has the universal appeal.

Mone ki pore akdin amio chilam
tomader shobar majhe
Dukkho shukher golpo kothaey
koto din rat prohor gache
ajo jay emni kore

Can you remember
one day I was also there
among all of you
In stories and chatters
of sorrows and happiness
how many days, nights, and moments spent
Like today, like the same


Mone ki pore akdin amio chilam
tomader shobar majhe

Can you remember
one day I was also there
among all of you


bhorer pakhi gulo ajo shei chena shure
ghum bhanga gaan geye jay
janalay jhilmil shonali rod hashe
pordata dole mridu mondo howay
Rate phota fuler moto jiboner diry theke
ekti pata kokhon gache jhore

Birds of the dawn
still in the same known tune
sing the songs of wake
golden gilded sunlight
smiles on the window
while the curtain shifts
by slight disarrayed winds
Like the flowers
bloomed in the night
from the diary of life
when did one page ripped away


Mone ki pore akdin amio chilam
tomader shobar majhe

Can you remember
one day I was also there
among all of you


Shajher tara gulo ajo shei akashete
nirjone mon chueye jay
boroshar rimhim sharakhon brishtite
anmona duti chokh shopne joray
harano she dingulir batha shomoyer nirmomotay
jai je muche kokhon kemon kore

Still the stars of the dusk
from the same sky
touches the heart solitarily
In Rainy season's drizzling constant rain
distracted two eyes tangle in dream
Pain from those lost days
in the cruelties of time
get erased, when and how


Mone ki pore akdin amio chilam
tomader shobar majhe
Dukkho shukher golpo kothaey
koto din rat prohor gache
ajo jay emni kore


Can you remember
one day I was also there
among all of you
In stories and chatters
of sorrows and happiness
how many days, nights, and moments spent
Like today, like the same


Mone ki pore akdin amio chilam
tomader shobar majhe
Dukkho shukher golpo kothaey
koto din rat prohor gache
ajo jay emni kore

Can you remember
one day I was also there
among all of you
In stories and chatters
of sorrows and happiness
how many days, nights, and moments spent
Like today, like the same