Erika May
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Erika May
>>This We Have Now<< ~~ Jalaluddin Balkhi (Rumi)
This we have now is not imagination.
This is not grief or joy.
Not a judging state, or an elation, or a sadness.
Those come and go.
This is the presence that doesn't.
It's dawn, Husam, here in the splendor of coral,
inside the Friend, the simple truth
of what Hallaj said.
What else could human beings want?
When grapes turn to wine, they're wanting this.
When the nightsky pours by,
it's really a crowd of beggars
and they all want some of this!
This
that we are now
created the body, cell by cell
like bees building a honeycomb.
The human body and the universe
grew from this, not this
from the universe and the human body.