English
All nature's creatures sleep at night. Why does shiuli stay awake? Mother, kindly tell me why. All other flowers play by day laughing and dancing in fragrant array while around them black bees busily buzz collecting their hidden delights. I love too the day as the flowers do and so I know them well. I know them all so very well, their colours and sweet smells. The flowers and the puppies, all, the black bees and the myna birds, lay down their heads in sweet repose during the dark of night. Shiuli alone defies dusk's call and proudly proclaims her special role, "Look I am still awake!" Kindly tell me mother why shiuli's special ways? Out of love for whom she serenades the night and shuns the light of day? Listen close, my darling child why shiuli loves the night. She feels so shy in the light of day and hides away her face. Shiuli's precious petals fall at the break of every dawn, when You, my sweetest little one, from deepest sleep awake.
