meditation on duality

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Come my Beloved

 

Come grasp my hand,

my dark one

and make me keep our promise

Come look into my eyes,

ancient wise one

and awaken yourself in me again

Come kiss me on my lips,

my true teacher

and slay this worthless imposter

Come enfold me in your arms

my faithful love

that dreaming i might recall who i am

and am not

Come make love to me

my only beloved

for i am lame and my promise broken

for i am blind, lost and without inner light

for i am deaf and dumb and cannot speak

for i am nothing when i am without you

 

Redeemer of my lost body, mind heart and soul

Return once again and forever that your poet

of your timeless beauty

of your infinite wisdom

of your effortless grace

of your endless truth

of your immortal love

might sing sweetly so that all creation must hear

and so hearing all must laugh, dance and sing

 

Mira, your poet is mutely clutching at your feet,

and all creation awaits a fresh song of beginning!

Come grasp, look, kiss, enfold, and love me into you.

Sing me into a sweet new key of our ever higher song!

 

Come my beloved , i love you Mirabai, oh beloved come.

 

mark christopher valentine

(may 15, 2001)