shimool

Updated: May 15, 2025

Only some stray goats from the village browse the scanty grass all day, and the solitary water-hawk watches from an uprooted peepal aslant over the mud. You sit there alone in the miserly shade of a shimool, and the morning wears on. Tell me, for whom do you wait? She looks in my face and says, "No one, no one at all!"

Rabindranath Tagore - The Fugitive