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the agony and ecstasy of love

 

"He will drink it little by little

and will not be able to swallow it agreeably,

and death will come to him from every quarter,,

but he shall not die..."

- Qur'an 14:17

 

 

with languishing eyes

with starving hands

i crave you

sweet mirabai

oh beloved,

gangaji,

 

fragile days shuffle like old men

hobbling down a dusty worn path

 

broken nights stagger drunkenly

and shatter like a dropped glass

 

while i rage out my lyric heart

to a blazing sun and piercing moon

 

the choiring birds at dawn torment

my longing with sweet mockery

 

ugly words come from fools who

have lost faith in higher, divine love

 

yet your poet lifts his glass once again

to drink you once more, flawless dark one,

 

death after birth, birth after death

crying, cry, crying of your white arms

 

as glittering shards of a broken crystal

cut bare feet are my lonesome nights

 

stumbling through a neglected garden

like old men my tedious days shuffle

 

 

teacher,

oh lover

dear mirabai

i hunger for you

with a bottomless heart

with clairvoyant sight

 

as one awaiting first love’s tender kiss

 

as mira awaits mark, mark awaits mira

endlessly, without effort, infinitely

 

eternally, within and without, mortally

mark loves mira as mira loves mark

 

together we await our first holy kiss of fire

parched agony and ecstasy of distilled lust

 

melting bent minds and broken hearts to fluidity

flowing golden anodine nectars of joy and bliss

 

humming a new canticle celebrating first true love

i sing my burning for you, my beloved, into song

 

mark christopher valentine

(april 11, 2001)

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