My Swan, Let us Fly

Kabir 1440 (Banaras) – 1518 (Maghar)



My swan, let us fly to that land
Where your Beloved lives forever.
 
That land has an up-ended well
Whose mouth, narrow as a thread,
The married soul draws water from
Without a rope or pitcher.
 
My swan, let us fly to that land
Where your Beloved lives forever.
 
Clouds never cluster there,
Yet it goes on and on raining.
Don’t keep squatting outside in the yard –
Come in! Get drenched without a body!
 
My swan, let us fly to that land
Where your Beloved lives forever.
 
That land is always soaked in moonlight;
Darkness can never come near it.
It is flooded always with the dazzle
Of not one, but a million suns.
 
My swan, let us fly to that land
Where your Beloved lives forever.

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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme AB xxxb AB xxxx AB xxxx AB
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 674
Words 130
Stanzas 7
Stanza Lengths 2, 4, 2, 4, 2, 4, 2

Kabir

Kabīr was a mystic poet and saint of India, whose writings have greatly influenced the Bhakti movement. The name Kabir comes from Arabic al-Kabīr which means 'The Great' – the 37th name of God in Islam. Kabir's legacy is today carried forward by the Kabir Panth, a religious community that recognizes him as its founder and is one of the Sant Mat sects. Its members, known as Kabir panthis, are estimated to be around 9,600,000. They are spread over north and central India, as well as dispersed with the Indian diaspora across the world, up from 843,171 in the 1901 census. His writings include Bijak, Sakhi Granth, Kabir Granthawali and Anurag Sagar. more…

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