Poems Of India - XVI

Who cares
    who strips a tree of leaf
    once the fruit is plucked?

Who cares
    who lies with the woman
    you have left?

Who cares
    who ploughs the land
    you have abandoned?

After this body has known my lord
    who cares if it feeds
    a dog
    or soaks up water?
   
-- Akka Mahādēvi [Translated by A. K. Ramanujan in the book - Speaking of Siva]

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