From the beginning of my life
I have been looking for your face
but today I have seen it
Today I have seen
the charm, the beauty, and
the unfathomable grace
of the face that I have been looking for
Today I have found you
and those who laughed and scorned me yesterday
are sorry they were not looking as I did
I am bewildered by the magnificence of your beauty
and wish to see you with a hundred eyes
My heart has burned with passion and has searched forever
for this wondrous beauty I now behold
I am ashamed to call this love human
and afraid of God to call it divine
Your fragrant breath like the morning breeze
has come to the stillness of the garden
You have breathed new life into me
I have become your sunshine
and also your shadow
My soul is screaming in ecstasy
Every fiber of my being
is in love with you
Your effulgence has lit a fire in my heart
for me the earth and sky
My arrow of love has arrived at the target
I am in the house of mercy
and my heart is a place of prayer
– Rumi