காதலே உன் காலடியில் நான் விழுந்து விழுந்து தொழுதேன் …
About the song En Kadhalae
My tribute to the song “En Kadhale” from Duet which captures love’s profound and often contradictory power. It explores intense yearning, adoration, and the bittersweet tension where the beloved’s influence reshapes worlds and unravels the soul. Rahman’s haunting melody beautifully portrays this deep, almost existential, devotion in a cosmic dance of emotion.
O love of my heart, my dearest—
What shape waits for me in your tale?
You know this hand holds the brush,
Yet you carve night from my skies,
Plucking stars like jasmines from a veil.
Wings to soar—or crosses to bear?
Which will your grace let fall?
You tore my world thread from thread,
Yet linger where monsoons begin—
Watching my soul unravel, unsaid.
O Love, if you toss a flower—petal-soft,
Mountains melt where their glacial hearts beat.
O Love, if you cast a stone—aimed aloft,
Oceans shiver, salt-bleeding at your feet.
O my Love—this tender siege, I worship it.
Rise? Or drown below?
Breathe? Or let the last breath go?
Nectar—golden-sweet?
Venom—bitter-cold?
Or love—the truth left unspoken?
O Love, at your feet—I tumbled, fell, and prayed,
Kneeling where your shadow ate the light—
My prayer etched in stone where your steps weighed.
But when you shut your eyes—a cruel eclipse,
I splintered into salt, and wept.
Change? Or dizzy fall?
Heart—iced? Or mist’s grey pall?
Friend? Or veiled foe?
This dawn-to-dusk war—
I wage it on your tongue.
Caseta Caelum 