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Spiritual and Devotional Poets » Sufi Poets » Lalla » Lalla Poetry » Why do you dote

Why do you dote

Why do you dote upon someone, my Soul,
who is not your true love ?
Why have you taken the false for the true?
Why can’t you understand, why can’t you know?
It is ignorance that binds you to the false,
To the ever-recurring wheel of birth and death,
    this coming and going.

By: Lalla

From: Lalla vakhs No. 14

Web source: Kashmiri Saints

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