Mirabai's poetry enacts dialogue with the absent Krishna; we can hold ongoing internal conversations with the dying person, completing what remains unsaid.
Much of Mirabai's poetry is direct address to Krishna—complaint, question, longing, accusation, praise—as if he were present and listening. This form of dialogue with the absent (or unreachable) beloved is a bhakti practice. In anticipatory grief, there is often an urgent sense of incompleteness: words unsaid, conflicts unresolved, gratitude unexpressed. The unfinished conversation haunts us. But Mirabai's example shows that we need not wait for the perfect moment or the perfect words. We can speak to the person now—aloud, in writing, in prayer—saying what needs to be said even if we do not receive the response we hoped for. We can imagine their reply. We can argue with them. We can forgive them. We can ask forgiveness. This internal dialogue does not require their participation to be real and transformative. By practicing it now, while they still live, we reduce the burden of unsaid things that will otherwise haunt our grief. The conversation becomes, in a sense, finished—not resolved, but completed through our own act of witness and speech.
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