Intoxicated by the Wine of Love. <br />From each a mystic silence Love demands. <br />What do all seek so earnestly? 'Tis Love. <br />What do they whisper to each other? Love. <br />Love is the subject of their inmost thoughts. <br />In Love no longer 'thou' and 'I' exist, <br />For Self has passed away in the Beloved. <br />Now will I draw aside the veil from Love, <br />And in the temple of mine inmost soul, <br />Behold the Friend; Incomparable Love. <br />He who would know the secret of both worlds, <br />Will find the secret of them both, is Love.<br /><br />Farīd ud-Dīn Attar Abū Hamīd bin Abū Bakr Ibrāhī<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/intoxicated-by-the-wine-of-love/
