I live in Fearlessburg

Source (Verse 170)

Translation (Source)
I’d say this Through a megaphone If I had one:
Look at these men.
Shaven heads, Great big earrings, Ash-smeared bodies,
But inside they’re empty As a house that’s been Cleaned out by thieves.
 And look at these others In the best part of town,
Who forget that when death Slips its noose round their necks To drag them through the streets It won’t be pretty.
I live in Fearlessburg, Kabir the weaver says. Its builder? Rama.

The shaven-headed men are the Nath-panthis, belonging to a religious sect of the Hatha Yoga school. Several reasons have been given for the practice of smearing the body with ashes. “They signify death to the world,...or they may indicate that the body must be reduced to ashes ultimately, or they may be a sign that the Yogi has abandoned the world” (G.W. Briggs, Gorakhnath and the Kanphata Yogis, 1938, pp. 16–17).