The depth of this love!

I tried to fathom the depth of this love
To find something similar in nature

The love that Laila and Majnun had
Pales in significance with this love

For Laila wanted Majnun and vice Versa
There was always selfish interest involved

The love that the bee has for the flower
Is also for the nectar within

Or is it similar to the intoxication of
Shams and Rumi for their beloved

And yet this love is beyond the
Whirling of Dervesh in divine love

Is it similar to the love of Tukoba and Ghora
Damaji Pant and Namadeva for Panduranga

No I think it is the love the beloved had
For Rumi and Shams and Mansur and Ali

It is the love that Vitoba had for
Jnanadeva,Nivritthi,Ghora and Tukoba

This only can explain superficially
Like the tip of an iceberg

The love that the parents feel
For their children day and night

One might as well measure the depth of the seven seas
Or measure the expanse of the skies above

But one cannot I realized measure
The divine parents care and love

--Dedicated to my parents

Before day and night came forth!

The lovers know only your name
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"