Arjuna the warrior

Forgive me
For falling in love
With the warrior Arjuna,

For whom no
promises of safety
could be made,

Who, with a heart as heavy
as my own
and water running the
length of handsome

threw arrows into the
hearts of kin
and slayed his own.

Forgive me Govinda
for turning my eyes from you
Lord forever,

But my mouth is defiled with
things not of you

As you drove Arjuna
to the battle
I long to be driven to
Homelands by you.

Fall not into degrading weakness...Throw off this ignoble
discouragement, and arise like a fire that burns all before it...The
wise grieve not for those who live; and they grieve not for those who
die-for life and death shall pass away...In death thy glory in heaven,
in victory thy glory on earth. Arise therefore, Arjuna with thy soul
read to fight. Prepare for war with peace in thy soul. Be in peace in
pleasure and pain, in gain and in loss, in victory or in the loss of a
battle. In this peace there is not sin.