I Do Not Say

unless I sing of you.O Lord, accept me if you will, accept notif you will not: I cannot rest contented unlessI worship you.O Lord, love me if you will, love notif you will not: I cannot rest contented unless I holdyou in my armsO Lord, look at me if you will, look notif you will…

three brothers-in-law, like tigers;and the husband’s thoughtsare full of laughing women;no god, this man,And I cannot cross the sister-in-law.But I willgive this wench the slipand go cuckold my husband withHara, my Lord.My mind is my maid:by her kindness, I joinmy Lord,my utterly beautiful Lordfrom the mountain peaks,my lord white as jasmine,and I will make Himmy…

ways:if you shoot an arrowplant ittill no feather shows;if you huga body, bonesmust crunch and crumble;weld,the welding must vanish.Love is thenour lord’s love

from her marrow,and dyingin her body’s threadswinding tight, roundand round,I burndesiring what the heart desires.Cut through, O Lord,my heart’s greed,and show meyour way out,O Lord white as jasmine

Him with the jewelled crown,Him with the gleaming teeth,Him with the smiling face,Him who illumines the fourteen worlds withthe light of His eyes.I have Him and the thirst of my eyes isquenched.I have seen the great Lord whom the menamong men serve but as wives.I have seen the Supreme Guru Chenna Mallikarjunasporting with the Primeval…

resistance it clings to me and follows me.Your Maya becomes Yogini to the Yogin. Itbecomes a nun to the monk, it becomes aherald to the saint. It adapts itself toeach according to his nature.When I climbed up the hill, your Maya toocame up; when I entered the forest, yourMaya too entered behind me.So the world…