Do you Love Me?

A lover asked his beloved,
Do you love yourself more
than you love me?

The beloved replied,
I have died to myself
and I live for you.

I’ve disappeared from myself
and my attributes.
I am present only for you.

I have forgotten all my learning,
but from knowing you
I have become a scholar.

I have lost all my strength,
but from your power
I am able.

If I love myself
I love you.

If I love you
I love myself.

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

If You Are Reading This

If you are reading this

I want you to know

That even after all this time

I haven't let you go

I still think of you

When I'm all alone

I still hope you'll call me

As I stare at the phone...

If you are reading this

Maybe then you'll see

That even after all this time

You're everything to me

And I'm trying so hard

To not become sad

When I start to think about

What we could have had...

If you are reading this

Maybe you'll understand

How much it hurts me

To see you leaving me alone

But you won't know I'm sad

You won't know I want to die

Because I'm still smiling

Even when I want to cry

And if you are reading this

I hope you will see...

That I'm still in love with you

And it's slowly killing me............

 Tinydancery 

What Do They Know

I face the world with a smile, no one knows what is hid inside.
They see only happiness, they cant see the tears I've cried.
When I am alone I hurt, because here I do it well.
In front of all the watchful eyes my heaven turns to hell.

The judge and jury awaits me, everyone has a say.
In a life that hangs suspended for yet another day.
Who are they to judge if what I have done is right or wrong?
In the end I gave him up, but inside still sing his song.

I don't know how to find the strength I thought I had.
If only I could play tough it wouldn't be so bad.
They say that life goes on and someday I'll smile again.
But, how do they know my pain without being where I've been?
I've traveled so far from home, and can't find my way back.

Somewhere along the way I must have jumped the track.
I saw him just today and his smile is still the same.
He looked at me so sweetly, but never spoke my name.
I wonder if he remembers me, It hasn't been that long.
He may have forgotten me, but I still sing his song.

The Pain

When I first met you I knew it was true,

I knew we would be together just me and you.

I took you for granted, the one I love,

The one and only that god sent from above.

I sit here reminiscing all the times we shared,

Wondering why I never showed how much I really cared.

The day came up on us, like darkness in the sky,

It rained down on us, and I don’t know why.

You tell me there is nothing left to say.

after six years it shouldn’t be this way.

If you can find just one reason to stay,

I will make you fall back in love with me each and every day.

by Travis T.