Poem: “My love is eternal”

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Love is an eternal river

Love is not static

Love is not contained or restrained

Love is an eternal river

Love is not just within the heart of a person

Love is transcendent and universal

My love is the Beloved, the Source

My love is eternal for my Love is eternal

In a state of love, I yearn for the Beloved

My heaven, my destination is the Beloved

In a state of love, I become Rabia

I love the Beloved, not for the greed of heaven

In a state of love, I become Shah Abdul Latif

Ready to sacrifice my being for one glimpse of my Beloved

In a state of love, I become Sohni, Sassi, Marvi,

even Heer and Leila, for my Beloved

In a state of love, every cell of my body,

every atom in my being is lost in Beloved

In a state of love, I transcend gender boundaries

becoming Khwaja Mouinuddin, Baba Farid, Nizam Uddin Awliya!

In a state of love, I am no longer “me”

In this state of love, I become Rumi’s flute

In love, I lose my ego, I become Mansur

I shed all droppings of my human arrogance

In this state: love worship becomes one

I lose everything, and yet gain everything!

Amineh is not limited to her human body,

her love for the Beloved is eternal,

Her love will flow, adoring the Beloved

From the beginning till the end of time

Her every cell, every DNA, worshipping

Through the river of love of all lovers

In glittering examples par excellence

Through the rasuls of the Beloved

Love is eternal, love is fluid.

And I am but one essential drop

in the eternal river of love.

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Arts & LiteratureArts and LifeLiteratureMysticismPoemPoetry

Dr. Amineh Hoti is an interfaith activist with a Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge. She is an author and poet and has written Gems and Jewels: the Religions of Pakistan.
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