My soul waits for Thee day and night; as the Chakora bird longs for the moon, as though she were his life. As a girl at Divali time longs to be sent for home, as a hungry child cries for its mother, so I am hungry to see Thy glorious face, says Tuka.
Hinduism
Tukaram, Poem 2030
Source The Poems of Tukârâma, trad. J. Nelson Fraser et K. B. Marathe, 3 vol., 1909-1915, archive.org · Contents