Mirabai

The Beloved Comes Home

The one I longed for has come home;The raging fire of separation is quenched.Now I rejoice with Him, I sing in bliss.The peacocks at the cloud’s roarDance with unbound joy;I rejoice in ecstasyAt the sight of my Beloved.I am absorbed in His love;My misery of wanderingIn the world has ended.The lily bursts into bloomAt the…

I remember how my mother would hold me.

I understand now what was happening.Love so strong a forceit broke thecage,and she disappeared from everythingfor a blessedmoment.All actions have evolvedFrom the taste of flight;the hope of freedommoves our cellsand limbs.Unable to live on the earth,Mira ventured out alone in the sky –I write of that journeyof becoming asfree asGod.Don’t forget love;it will bring all…

O my friends,

Whose pathways are filled with strangeness?When you offer the Great One your love,At the first step your body is crushed.Next be ready to offer your head as his seat.Be ready to orbit his lamp like a moth giving in to the light,To live in the deer as she runs toward the hunter’s call,In the partridge…