the song of songs

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the song of songs

 

“So what it the King go into a fury?”

-Songs

of Mirabai

 

i will sing of the beauty of my beloved

 

for the love of my love for the dark one

she who haunts the daylight with dreams

and illuminates dreams with awakenings

 

of my beloved i will sing of the beauty

 

the gentle but sure caress of rose petals

the fragrance of jasmine sailing into the abyss

the fire beyond boundaries within the opal

 

of the beauty of my beloved i will sing

 

truthfully, even if heaven and earth be jealous

the ten thousand clay gods and goddesses raging

veil blue infinity with oppressive shades of grey

 

i will sing of the truth within my beloved

 

the seeking for a song that cannot be forgotten

that limpid gold melody flowing relentlessly free

sweetly beyond and above multiplicity itself

 

within my beloved i will sing of the truth

 

the simple fluidity heard only in raging waters

liquidity lost recovered in pure streaming harmony

the confluence of alluvial sands inside living waters

 

of the truth within my beloved i will sing

 

my beloved so singing within me will make even god jealous

the one angry god above the many jealous gods will step down

yield as all transient love must surrender to love that is higher

 

i sing of truth and beauty within my dark one

of my dark one i sing within truth and beauty

of truth and beauty within my dark one

i sing

 

of my love for my dark one of the love of my dark one for me

 

it is the limpid cadence of the muddy torrent gently settling

turbulence gathering sands into opalescence into water into clarity

my beloved is the song of songs within the fire beneath the water

 

mark christopher valentine

(August 2, 2001)