How many lifetimes have I been apart from you,
how many lifetimes still to go?
I've dedicated this janam to finally finding you
and this is now my greatest hope
How many lifetimes have I suffered in pain
how many hells have I burned in?
I've come to your sanctuary, I've lifted my hands
and I pray for you to lift my burden
I helplessly call from the bottom of the ocean
I've been drowning eternally
The callings of so many carry in the currents
Lord, when will you end our misery?
The lonely soulbride finds no peace
Sadness and forgetfulness pull her down
the ocean of the world has made her the ghost of the sea
she floats in her disgraced tattered gown
Sometimes I am fearful, sometimes I am strong
I have no strength of my own
Please won't you grace me, pull me out and embrace me
I am tired of the dry words in my poems
I am begging, in the only way that I know how
Oh sisters, won't you show me the way?
How can I please my Lord and master
so He can take my suffering away?
How can I beg, so he won't turn me down
and write His name on my soul
Tell me, dear sisters, will my Lord ever bless me, and love me
and make my lonely heart whole?
ਸਤਿਗੁਰਬਚਨਕਮਾਵਣੇਸਚਾਏਹੁਵੀਚਾਰੁ॥