When the rose is gone and the garden faded
you will no longer hear the nightingale's song.
The Beloved is all; the lover -- just a veil.
The Beloved is living; the lover -- a dead thing.
If love withholds its strengthening care,
the lover is left like a bird without wings.
How will I be awake and aware
if the light of the Beloved is absent?
Love wills that this word be brought forth.




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What is agony of the spirit?
To advance toward death without seizing
hold of the water of life.

If you want to live, die in Love;
die in Love if you want to remain alive.