How Could a Lover Fall?
Sant Tukaram 1598 (Dehu, Pune Maharashtra) – 1649 (Dehu)
What could have caused your grip to weaken
that allowed creation to be?
How could a lover fall to his death
from the arms of infinite
strength?
How active you are in the mind sustaining such a great wall
that the sun can cast a frightening shadow
the world believes.
No one has ever really known sadness. No real God
would ever allow pain.
How then can a heart feel it is broken and in need
If we are held in the arms of infinite
compassion and
strength?
The mirror you (God) stand before -
we need to gaze into it also.
That name you called Beloved
as I fell from your lips -
I suffer
because I did not quite
hear it;
so tell me again dear One
so clear:
I am
you.
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | ax xbC xdx xx xbxC xd xxx xx ax xx |
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Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 661 |
Words | 136 |
Stanzas | 10 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 3, 3, 2, 4, 2, 3, 2, 2, 2 |
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