Purananuru - Part 173
May Pannan live long for all the days that I am alive!
Singers! Will you look at how this man's family suffers!
The sound of people who are eating can be heard like birds
chirping in a full-grown tree that is filled with fruit!
Like scattered lines of little tiny ants setting
off toward the high ground and carrying their eggs,
mindful that the time is coming when the rains that
do not fail will fall, children in large families go
here and there carrying rice in their hands. We see them
and having seen them, over and over again we ask,
“Give us a straight answer, is the house
of that physician who cures hunger nearby or far away?”
Singers! Will you look at how this man's family suffers!
The sound of people who are eating can be heard like birds
chirping in a full-grown tree that is filled with fruit!
Like scattered lines of little tiny ants setting
off toward the high ground and carrying their eggs,
mindful that the time is coming when the rains that
do not fail will fall, children in large families go
here and there carrying rice in their hands. We see them
and having seen them, over and over again we ask,
“Give us a straight answer, is the house
of that physician who cures hunger nearby or far away?”
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