You have slept...

O my heart!

The Supreme Spirit,

the great Master,

is near you:

wake, oh wake!

Run to the feet of your Beloved:

for your Lord stands near to your head.

You have slept for unnumbered ages;

this morning will you not wake?



Kabir
in Rabindranath Tagore, Translator
Songs of Kabir
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1915,XIX (II.20), p. 68-69