A wilderness grew...

A wilderness grew
in the sky.
In that wilderness
a hunter.
In the hunter's hands
a deer.

The hunter will not die
till the beast
is killed.

Awareness is not easy,
is it,
O Lord of Caves?

Footnotes: In the soul (sky) grows the wilderness (unawareness). Desire (the hunter) hunts down life (deer). Till life ends, desire has no end either.

Source: Allama's vachana as translated by A. K. Ramanujan