Thursday, December 7, 2017
Monday, September 11, 2017
The Embrace of Divine Shattering
There
is wisdom in insecurity,
Protection in fear,
Knowledge in regret,
Protection in fear,
Knowledge in regret,
Awakening
in suffering.
If you are being shattered,
is there really any way to stop it?
Yet there is always a way of return.
It resides in a knowing
deep at the root of our being.
If you have not been shattered,
you cannot find this 'way' to awakening,
to be reborn from the chains
of limitation and conditioning.
In shattering
The breath stops,
The heart cracks open,
Through the openings a breeze arises
as the breath of Allah.
Now is the time to let go!
It is
the way to
give a broken heart
the promise of healing by this blessed Breath.
Let yourself be
empty now and simply present
to this new life as it heals and enfolds you in nearness,
where
one step spans a thousand years in the way.
Oh lover,
Know that when your heart is shattered
it brings intimacy, and then,
though you may not see the face of the Beloved,
you certainly feel Her longing embrace.Sunday, August 13, 2017
Seeking the Beloveds Kiss
This frustration –
Seeking, seeking, seeking
And not one curl of my beloved do I see.
Hiding behind your veil,
I know you are fanning my desire beloved
My deep longing burns,
Ignited by separation and love.
Longing, burning, melting,
Pain of separation, limitation, blindness –
I surrender Beloved, I give up!
So tired, no longer can I continue such endless seeking;
Heart Bereft, lost, a failure to your love -
I lay down myself - darkness comes.
upon the lips of my heart,
A rose scented breeze caressing my face.
What, what is this awakening?
No, not for I, I am gone, but yet do I live?
Rising, dusting off ashes from my heart,
So softly I call: Is it you Beloved ?
and find the answer in my tears.
Longing for the Beloved
This barren longing,
This lack of capacity
to feel Thy embrace Beloved,
Is breaking my heart.
My longing for thy kiss,
has turned my heart into barren soil longing for rain,
it has made deep cracks and
in the cracks some cold flame is kindled
on
the bone dry tinder of myself.
I wail,
I know it is wailing because I’ve
heard it before,
with the Friends who’ve mingled love
with separation,
and like those friends, on calloused feet I too
irresistibly begin to turn -
It is the only thing that seems to
give the pain a home,
like red-hot iron quenched in some all-pervading
ocean of love.
As my heart turns, it calls out this
song:
Longing the fuel,
Love the flame,
I will burn `til morning
when nothing remains
but YOU.
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