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

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 -