SiSiras vuth kus raTe,
kus bvake raTe va:v |
yus pö:ntsh èndryay tsaTith tsaTe,
suy raTe gaTe rav ||
Who can stop
winter's icy dripping?
Who can hold
the wind in his hand?
He who has cut
the five senses
down to size,
that one,
in the midst of darkness,
can seize the sun.
Note: I must apologize to my fellow feminists for the use of non-inclusive language, but that is what Lalla used. The pronoun in the last of Lalla's lines is "suh" (he), not "soh" (she). In some of the other poems I have managed to use a non-specific "they," but it didn't work here.
ॐ नमः शिवाय ॐ
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