@CryptoSmart 31 May 2020

The Poet to Death

**Tarry a while, O Death, I cannot die** While yet my sweet life burgeons with its spring; Fair is my youth, and rich the echoing boughs Where dhadikulas (a member of Kulas family who compose song) sing. **Tarry a while, O Death, I cannot die** With all my blossoming hopes unharvested, My joys ungarnered, all my songs unsung, And all my tears unshed. Tarry a while, till I am satisfied Of love and grief, of earth and altering sky; Till all my human hungers are fulfilled, **O Death, I cannot die!** ----- --- Mrs. Sarojini Naidu------- Note: She was great lady freedom fighter and wrote this poem in 1934 while in imprisonment. I am presenting this poem here in memory of her death anniversary.