How Very Close

how very close
is your soul with mine
I know for sure
everything you think
goes through my mind
I am with you
now and doomsday
not like a host
caring for you
at a feast alone
                               
with you I am happy
all the times
the time I offer my life
or the time
you gift me your love
offering my life
is a profitable venture
each life I give
you pay in turn
a hundred lives again
in this house
there are a thousand
dead and still souls
making you stay
as this will be yours
a handful of earth
cries aloud
I used to be hair or
I used to be bones
and just the moment
when you are all confused
leaps forth a voice
hold me close
I'm love and
I'm always yours

Rumi
And he said:
"
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.  Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that its heart may stand in the sun, so must you know pain."
Kahlil Gibran The Prophet
Home