He will not let me sleep in the morning, and at night he keeps on twittering like a sparrow. This wretch is ever at my back, turning my life into torment. He brings with him a crowd of people, and sits at his ease in the temple. So here I am come to my own house, says Tuka, to fall into the horrors of my wife’s mouth.
Hinduism
Tukaram, Poem 2771
Source The Poems of Tukârâma, trad. J. Nelson Fraser et K. B. Marathe, 3 vol., 1909-1915, archive.org · Contents