Nammalvar was one of the twelve Tamil Alvar poet-saints, said by tradition to have been born in an enlightened state in 3059 BCE. These verses are to the Divine in the form of Vishnu, who is commonly portrayed as having blue-black skin – therefore, ‘my lord dark as a raincloud.’.

While I was waiting eagerly for him
saying to myself,

“If I see you anywhere
I’ll gather you
and eat you up,”

he beat me to it
and devoured me entire,

my lord dark as raincloud,
my lord self-seeking and unfair.

Translation A. K. Ramanujan