my heart is still there with her

Does that girl, 

                        eyes like flowers, gathering flowers 

from pools for her garlands, driving away the parrots 

from the millet fields, 

                                    does that girl know at all 

or doesn’t she, 

                        that my heart is still there with her 

                        bellowing sighs 

                        like drowsy midnight elephant? 

 

[Kapilar {100-200 A.D.} 'What He Said', Kuṟ 142, from The Interior Landscape: Classical Tamil Love Poems, trans. from the Tamil by A.K. Ramanujan]