Not Hiding Not Seeking
Love has stained my body
To the color of the One Who Holds Up Mountains.
When I dressed in the world's five fabrics,
I only played hide and seek —
For disguised though I was, the Lifted One caught me,
And seeing his beauty, I offered him all that I am.
Friends, let those whose Beloved is absent write letters —
Mine dwells in the heart, and neither enters nor leaves.
Mira has given herself to her Lord Giridhara.
Day or night, she waits only for him./p>
— Mirabai , Mirabai
by Robert Bly, Jane Hirschfield