Those women
who can see their lovers
even in dreams
are lucky,
but without him
sleep won’t come,
so who can dream
a dream?
Hla Stavhana
Hla Stavhana (c. 50 A.D.), South Indian king, Prkrit poet. translated from The Gthsaptaat of Stavhana Hla by Martha Ann Selby, vs. 397, Nirnaya Sgara Press (1889).