Tuesday, October 8, 2013

Lal Ded: Untitled ["I Was Passionate"]


I was passionate,
filled with longing,
I searched
far and wide.

But the day
that the Truthful One
found me,
I was at home.




Untitled ["I Was Passionate"] by Lal Ded, translated by Jane Hirshfield, from Women in Praise of the Sacred. © HarperCollins Publishers, 1994.

Photography credit: "Worn Blue Tennis Shoes Outside Door," by (originally color).


 

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