POEM FROM TAMIL LITERATURE LOVER’S APPREHENSION (31)

ABOUT THE POEM This is a translated version of an awe-inspiring poem  LOVER’S APPREHENSION from Tamil literature. The colophon reads that the poem is all about what a young lady shared with her companion about her nervousness over the sweetheart's conspicuous absence from home. She expresses her state of mind vociferously with a reference to the change of weather and the noticeable changes in plantations and vegetation. LOVER’S APPREHENSION Delicately he would caress My lustrous and spiraling hair Further  place his arms caressingly ' Don't weep,' he would say soothingly as he wiped off my tears, What has befallen on him now? In the hilly mountainous fields surplus Millet harvest is done the opulent country beans have begun burgeoning Indeed, even in this cool winter He is conspicuously absent from home (what the young lady shared with her companion about her nervousness over the sweetheart's  conspiscuous absence from home )