Here you will find the Poem We Do Not of poet Mirabai
We do not get a human life Just for the asking. Birth in a human body Is the reward for good deeds In former births. Life waxes and wanes imperceptibly, It does not stay long. The leaf that has once fallen Does not return to the branch. Behold the Ocean of Transmigration. With its swift, irresistible tide. O Lal Giridhara, O pilot of my soul, Swiftly conduct my barque to the further shore. Mira is the slave of Lal Giridhara. She says: Life lasts but a few days only.
