Wail all thee in every hearth.
Comes all this true when Rama
Learns here Ravan confines me.
Lands as Ram in hot pursuit
Ravan would have no respite.
Naïve is Ravan for he gloats
That he kept me on death row.
Won’t he shortly come to know
That he himself dug his grave?
Deserve demons no more now
Graves than mass in barren lands.
Having put a brave face thus
Gripped was Seetha yet by doubts!
Can I come to see my Ram
Should vile Ravan keeps his word
And gets served me for breakfast?
Might my Lord have thought I died
Or else wouldn’t he scan all earth?
Taking me for dead and gone
Man mine would have given up life.
Won’t he gladden gods all there
Stay with his in heaven of theirs?
Would a godly man like Ram
Need to keep his woman in mind?
Out of sight is out of mind
Maybe norm with all humans,
With his sense of fairness Ram
Won’t he cherish his life with me?
Wonder how I met this fate
Being wife of such great soul!
Turned as void for his loss
Why hanker for life I now?
Having lost the will to fight
What if Ram ’n Lakshman too
Penance to taken in despair!
Who knows wily Ravan didn’t
Contrive death of Ram and him.
See I no end of misery
Carry why now more of it?
Come I nowhere near yogis
For whom joys and sorrows
Meaning have none of their own.
But the rest all gloat fortune
And get shaken by hard times.
Ram as is not there to guide
Why not I take my own life?