NIGHTINGALES SING IN WEEPING WILLOWS

[Guest guest]

SWEET NIGHTINGALE boldly throbs his song of songs,

 

Pining for safe return of his long l0st love;

 

Mirroring soul's yearning for her great God above.

 

Pure unconditional love and faith belong,

 

To those who strive with mighty effort strong,

 

Like this symbolic bird or turtle dove,

 

Adored by Sufi poets, whose rhymes they wove

 

With threads of prayer for 'That' for which we long.

 

 

 

Death of dark ego was their sacred aim,

 

Prayer, penitence, practice, the righteous means,

 

Invoking aid and grace, from His Sacred Name,

 

Whirling and turning in ecstatic scenes.

 

The Holy Task's inspired by faithful nightingale,

 

To soar over stormy seas and never, ever fail!