Why do you dote upon someone, my Soul,
who is not your true love ?
Why have you taken the false for the true?
Why can’t you understand, why can’t you know?
It is ignorance that binds you to the false,
To the ever-recurring wheel of birth and death,
this coming and going.
By: Lalla
Is Lalla an psuedoname? I’m trying to do research on her poem. “Why do you dote?