Seetha as would stay perturbed
Won’t that make my trip wasted?
Keeps that Rama in darkness
Place where Ravan confined her.
Were I to get killed or captured
Leaves that Rama in square one.
Can one Rama find to cross
Sea this vast to reach Seetha?
Take I can all Ravan’s men
But that drags on for so long
Thus I can’t go back in time.
How can one ever zero on
One who wins the war on hand
Gauge I till width of the gulf
Wise it not to go for jump.
If I were to turn my tail
How would Seetha get my trial,
Were I to try to talk to her
Won’t I have a war on hand?
Won’t the success of errands
Come to depend on the one
Vested who is with the same?
Won’t the best of well-laid plans
Go awry in hands of those
That lack tact to tackle them?
Better I fail not Rama’s cause
With some thoughtless act of mine.
How to make her take it cool
That me her man sent for her!
In the hearing of her now
Mutter if I would Rama’s tale
Might it as well dawn on her
It was her Lord that sent me.
Won’t my words in praise of Ram
Bring back memories of their time?
So to sing then Rama’s tale
In the hearing of his spouse
Perched then Hanuman on low branch.