But they call out to you in different names
Before day and night came forth
Much before there came knowledge and ignorance
Before life and death came forth
Before one knew happiness and sadness
Before there was prey and predator
Before there was good and bad
When this ground was not there
Nor was there the sky above
There was no sign of the sun or moon
Nor did there shine any stars in the night sky
Before any one was born here
There was a time when no one knew the truth
Then Only you and you alone existed
The beloved alone was there and none of the lovers existed
How all this materialized only you know
The lovers are just baffled by the world
Why this pain of separation from you?
The world seems like a sharp bed of nails
Why did the son of Haider drink the wine of annihilation?
Why did Shams of Tabrez allow himself to be skinned alive?
What did Mansur say at the Gibbet and why?
Who knows all this but you and only you?
Only these lovers who were lost in your thoughts
Forgot all else and realized there was only you
They realized darkness was just absence of light
And then there was your light and light alone!
--Inspired by the Sufi song "Allah hu Allah hu"
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