As a little girl goes to her mother-in-law’s house, she looks behind her on the way; so it is with my soul. O Kesava, when wilt Thou come to me? When a child loses his mother, he looks round him anxiously. Tuka says, I am distressed like a fish taken out of the water.
Hinduism
Tukaram, Poem 369
Source The Poems of Tukârâma, trad. J. Nelson Fraser et K. B. Marathe, 3 vol., 1909-1915, archive.org · Contents