'I HAVE FIVE THINGS TO SAY...' <br /> <br />The wakened lover speaks directly to the beloved, <br />'You are the sky my spirit circles in, <br />the love inside love, the resurrection-place. <br /> <br />Let this window be your ear. <br />I have lost consciousness many times <br />with longing for your listening silence, <br />and your life-quickening smile. <br /> <br />You give attention to the smallest matters, <br />my suspicious doubts, and to the greatest. <br /> <br />You know my coins are counterfeit, <br />but you accept them anyway, <br />my impudence and my pretending! <br /> <br />I have five things to say, <br />five fingers to give <br />into your grace. <br /> <br />First, when I was apart from you, <br />this world did not exist, <br />nor any other. <br /> <br />Second, whatever I was looking for <br />was always you. <br /> <br />Third, why did I ever learn to count to three? <br /> <br />Fourth, my oilfield is burning! <br /> <br />Fifth, this finger stands for Oneness, <br /> <br />Are these words or tears? <br />Is weeping speech? <br />What shall I do, my love? ' <br /> <br />So he speaks, and everyone around <br />begins to cry with him, laughing crazily, <br />moaning in the spreading union <br />of lover and beloved. <br /> <br />This is true religion. All others <br />are thrown-away bandages beside it. <br /> <br />This is not-being. <br /> <br />Neither words, nor any natural fact <br />can express this. <br /> <br />I know this dancers. <br />Day and night I sing her songs <br />in this phenomenal cage. <br /> <br />My soul, don't try to answer now! <br />Find a friend, and hide. <br /> <br />But what can stay hidden? <br />Love's secret is always lifting its head <br />out from under the covers, <br />'Here I am! ' <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />(frm unknown....... <br />syukran.......thanks for this beautiful poem) <br /> <br /> <br />june/2009<br /><br />fawzia zie<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/1-i-have-five-things-to-say/
