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Wednesday, 13 August 2014

Waking - Kālidāsa

Even the man who is happy
glimpses something
or a hair of sound touches him

and his heart overflows with a longing
he does not recognize

then it must be that he is remembering
in a place out of reach
shapes he has loved

in a life before this
the print of them still there in him waiting

Kālidāsa (4th century) India

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