Translation

Mother Kali, I have not invoked You
With my heart’s aspiring eagerness.
I have paid You only lip-service.
Therefore, I have failed to see You in my heart,
Which is all empty in Your absence.
You do not expect anything from me;
You make no demands whatsoever.
You do not want from my life the soulful message.
You want only one thing from me:
‘Happiness within and happiness without.’
Alas, where is peace, where is peace?
Peace has left my abode
And has made its abode elsewhere.
Here the life of sorrow and I
Now become inseparably one.