Looking For Your Face

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
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.....


Jalaluddin Rumi