POEM FROM TAMIL LITERATURE - STEADY AS A ROCK ( 41 )

ABOUT THE POEM: This is a translated version of a heart-wrenching poem  STEADY AS A ROCK from Tamil literature. The poem is about what the girl told her friend about the lover’s strict resolve and conviction in accomplishing his goal and her foolish anxiety over his safety. STEADY AS A ROCK He belongs to the land where among the precarious slopes the sprightly mountain goat slurps mother’s milk to its heart’s content frolics on the obscure slanting slope. He is pretty much as firm as a stone Obliviously I worried about him Perpetually. (what the girl told her friend about the lover’s strict resolve and conviction in accomplishing his goal and her foolish anxiety over his safety)