How can you be modest
People,
male and female,
blush when a cloth covering their shame
comes loose
When the lord of lives
lives drowned without a face
in the world, how can you be modest?
When all the world is the eye of the lord,
onlooking everywhere, what can you
cover and conceal?
- Mahadevi
- Translated A.K.Ramanujan
- From: The Shambhala anthology of Women's spiritual poetry
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(Mahadevi Poems) (Female Poets)