I should be quiet












I should be quiet and move

toward a reverent silence.



but how can my mouth be quiet, when it's not my mouth

but my lip's soul that speaks?



I Look for Wisdom but How will I hear knowledge

if I will not allow my ears to hear?



My ears are pricked but how can my ears hear,

above the exaulting noise made by the heart?



I speak and say nothing

I hear and cannot understand words



being both blind and deaf

I am going to amount to nothing



I have and will become nothing

I am a drifting piece of nothing...



I sit upon this complacent cloud

Immersed and totally absorbed by Love,



And being at one with Love;

nothing here on God's Green earth disturb me.



-ernest

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Having already been silenced by "Love's Master"
i will let another speak for me:

The MIRROR BETWEEN US
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -Jelaluddin Rumi

The mirror between us is breath
mist when I speak. Your face

in water: I reach, the work
grows muddy. Even 'friend' and

'beloved' are wrong words for this.
Even 'ahhhhhhh' retreats back into

my mouth, the same as if the moon's
behind a cloud or being released.

A pure silent look is better.

-translated by Coleman Bark