Netanel Miles-Yépez
After a Sufi Love Song by Yunus Emre
i’ve become an ocean of love
and an untold sea of suffering
all the ocean is now in my drop
and i wait hopeless for it to break
because it suffers love for love’s sake
there is no heart my heart cannot touch
no suffering world my hand cannot reach
nor any true healing for me in this world
the prophet isa was born upon a star
that broke on the blue eastern horizon
descending with mercy and compassion
to heal a broken world with his death
what waits for me in this trouble with love
a trouble that heals a need and yet breaks
my heart and your heart again and again
and leaves a body like rubble at ground zero
does a sacrifice for love accomplish its end
does a death for love heal the wound of love
does a broken heart mean anything sacred
does it carry a body to a heaven of fulfillment
i have become nothing in this ocean of love
no person to be admired nor any to be reviled
these seas as my witness i declare my self a fool
drowning in an ocean of tears suffering sacred
to know a human love as the holy absolute
to know the loneliness that only god can know
because god does not have a god to love her
nor any being to discover her except her own child
a broken human being in love