Red Earth, and Pouring Rain

What He Said

What could my mother be

to yours? What kin is my father

to yours anyway? And how

Did you and I meet ever?

But in love

our hearts have mingled

as red earth and pouring rain.

 

Cempulappeyanirar

 

From the Tamil anthology "Kuruntokai"

Translated by A.K.Ramanujan, in"The Interior Landscape: Love Poems from a Classical Tamil Anthology".

Cempulappeyanirar wrote about 2000 years ago,  a poet of the Sangam age.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sangam_literature