From the beginning of my life
I have been looking for your face
but today I have seen it
Today I have seen
the charm, the beauty,
the unfathomable grace
of the face
that I was looking for
Today I have found you
and those who laughed
and scorned me yesterday
are sorry that they were not looking
as I did
I am bewildered by the magnificence
of your beauty
and wish to see you
with a hundred eyes
My heart has burned with passion
and has searched forever
for this wondrous beauty
that I now behold
I am ashamed
to call this love human
and afraid of God
to call it divine
Your fragrant breath
like the morning breeze
has come to the stillness of the garden
You have breathed new life into me
I have become your sunshine
and also your shadow
My soul is screaming in ecstasy
Every fiber of my being
is in love with you
Your effulgence
has lit a fire in my heart
and you have made radiant
for me
the earth and sky
My arrow of love
has arrived at the target
I am in the house of mercy
and my heart
is a place of prayer”
― Rumi, The Love Poems of Rumi
Source: https://amzn.to/2Zek8Dt
Thank you Blurtlove for sharing this with us.
It could only have been ruined if the last sentence would have been something along the lines of...
I jest of course. Love is a wondrous thing, capable of destroying an empire or better, building one. Your work here at Blurt is a great demonstration of love, making so many feel welcome here. Thank you Blurtlove.
A beautiful poem. Humans are so lucky to experience such emotions.