Category: Volume XIII: Letters to my Second Self


  • Letter 18: Beloved Peace
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    Letter 18: Beloved Peace

    Beloved Peace, I stay, beyond “Farewell”,By sorrows, blighted by all princess of hell,I have been mocked by gods, that day I fell,To my dismay, I stay,… in misery, I dwell,In fervent ails, my wails none can foretell;My fragile bone frittered, out of my shell,Beloved Peace, Release me, Utter thine words & tell,Rid me of being,…

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  • Letter 17: On the doorway
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    Letter 17: On the doorway

    Behold, my own descent, my abject descent,In Isles I do not know, and lands I cannot reign,from blissful Blessedness, towards bearing of bane,Out of the peace doorway, towards whole humility,To the fullness of futility,& perfect pain,…Fallen without an end.In silent void, broken yet by lament,a bittersweet descent,a prospect, I won’t attain,Behold, my sweet demise,Out of…

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  • Letter 16: A Villanelle – Elegy
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    Letter 16: A Villanelle – Elegy

    Forlorn I left, and Life forthwith would cease,Except the endless elegies lamenting in my ears,As I stand bereaved from my sole perpetual peace, At end, There lies no hope or chance to seize,Forever lost all ways to laughs & cheers,For I have left, and Life forthwith would cease, I linger in abject despair, for one…

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  • Letter 15: To You, My Peace, My Prayer…
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    Letter 15: To You, My Peace, My Prayer…

    My Prayer;Of utter despair;ceding not, yet interceding,My Prayer; Of meeting you there,Between heart & mind,In all sweetness affined;my prayer; never receding,My Prayer;a promise of full grace & glare,through nights of lament & pleading,That you’ll leave the veil behind,With seeing, gift me: a blind,My Prayer; I’m all conceding,for having lost you mid-air,My Prayer; Thou art most…

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  • Letter 14: Das Ewig-Weibliche
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    Letter 14: Das Ewig-Weibliche

    If I could, I would’ve kissed your fears away;Drawing us on the firmament’s nightTo gleeful garish glaring day…I would’ve kept your heart in sight,I would’ve let you never fright,I would’ve kept your fear at bay…Transience would wane,In boon & bane,but you’ll remain—through my endless flight—An Eternal Light,A Dawning Day…& though, I know the Daunting Lifewould…

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  • Letter 13: I’ve had you lost…
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    Letter 13: I’ve had you lost…

    I’ve had you lost, and then I waste away:Unending spry & rosy days unmet;Praying for a second, I’d have you stay… If I would have you near, I’d kiss your fears away,But as I long & in my song I deeply forget;that I’ve had you lost, & now I waste away… I led my Life…

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  • Letter 12: Circle
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    Letter 12: Circle

    Circle is the God—the Eye:The way I’ve known youunknowing why…Circle, being centered, there,Every time and every whereon the earth & in the sky;Circle, where reside, the “I”,Having been unbound at all,Lingering only in your Soul.In your heart you hold each sphere,Knew I, Genesis bloomed in here,& that God is drawing nigh—Circle in each cheer or…

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  • Letter 11: Tell Me Where
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    Letter 11: Tell Me Where

    Tell me where all songs are sung,all winters—gone, and prizes—won,Where springs are sprung;Is it a place where she’s not there?!Just tell me where,& I’ll seek her… Tell me where all Loves are sprout,Where exiled doubtwon’t find a routeto creep again within or without;Is it a place where she’s not there?!Just tell me where,& I’ll stay…

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  • Letter 10: Sources
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    Letter 10: Sources

    I leave to linger through my only course,the course from you, through you, to turn to you,For, you’re so much my haven as my source, I come & kiss your fears; unclosing all our doors,Like a flower unfolding when blooming is due,& if I’ll leave, I’ll linger through my only course, & if I’ll leave:…

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  • Letter 9: What Shall I Do When I Miss You
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    Letter 9: What Shall I Do When I Miss You

    What shall I do when I miss you,but miss you more?!To kiss those winds that do kiss you,Kiss every sore, What shall I do except to wait,As you fall asleep,To kiss it as it kisses you late,Until it kisses you deep, What shall I do as your charms unfold,in silent delight?But to tell a story…

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  • Letter 7: If I Summarized
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    Letter 7: If I Summarized

    If I summarized all success in Life;I would only call your name:All the fortune and the fame,All—a drop to how you strive… If I summarized all the world’s grace;I would only draw your smile:Heeding decades in a while,A picture of my safest place… If I summarized all what’s divine;I would age telling of your soul:How…

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  • Letter 8: My Love… She Fears…
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    Letter 8: My Love… She Fears…

    My Love, being herself, she fears,Does she not know how much she’s dear?How much I’ve sought her all these years!How well I sleep—knowing she’s near, My Little Love, herself, she keeps,Until her panic lurks and creeps,& though I know, for I am so,I cannot soothe her as she sleeps,O’how I’d hug her pains away,every night…

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  • Letter 6:  A Song of Absence
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    Letter 6: A Song of Absence

    If I have known that then, you may return,I would do everything— every deed I know,Instead of staying here alone to burn… I’d write a thousand line ’bout how I yearn,or wipe away all words I wrote ago,If I have known that then, you may return… If all your absence reasons, I could discern,I would…

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  • جواب 5: أحملُكِ سراً جلياً
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    جواب 5: أحملُكِ سراً جلياً

    أحملُكِ سراً جلياًأحملُكِ سراً في قلبٍ غَدىَيقرأكِ في كلَّ الأحيانِإذْ يَعلمُ أن رؤياكِتُحيي ذاتي كل أوانِأه، يا مهدي وهلاكييا كَنزَ العمرِ و الآنأحملُكِ فوقَ إدراكيفوق الباقي و فوق الفانِ أحملُكِ حتّىَ لُقياكِحتّىَ و إن بَعُدَ اللُقيانِأحملُكِ لكن إياكِأن تَنأي عَنْ قلبي الآن قلبيِ يَقتادُ على مُحَيَّاكِمُبتهِلاً كَمَا الرُهبانِأحملُكِ و كُليَّ إيمَانِ أنَّكِ تَحمِلينني الآنخالقةً مِنْ يومي غدَأحملُكِ طَوال…

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  • Letter 4: I want to know you
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    Letter 4: I want to know you

    I want to know you;Like all beautiful things are known,like winter’s wind kiss,and like a summer sun burn,I want to know you;How you ache & how you yearn,How you linger, how you miss… I want to know you;Like all quiet things are known,Like a deeply focused mind, and like a pondering presence,I want to know you;How you pierce into each essence,How, in…

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  • Letter 3: Larger than Life
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    Letter 3: Larger than Life

    My heart are you as large enoughas my beloved be?She smiles embracing all the earth,and every lake and sea;She utters all warmth when she blooms,& turns her eyes towards me;My brightest futures looms,That which her laughs foresee.My dearest is larger than Life,Larger than all the laughs and tears,My dearest is larger than Life,Larger than all…

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  • جواب 2: أعلم أنني أعرفكِ
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    جواب 2: أعلم أنني أعرفكِ

    أعلم أنني أعرفكِ قبلَ الآن،قبل عمرٌ مضى وعمرٌ يمضي،قبل الأبدِ، كُنَا ذاتاً وكَياَن… قبلاً كنا نعيماً يسكنه روحان،شاديان الوجد بألحانِ الصمتِأعلمُ أنني أعرفكِ قبلَ الآن، إن خٌلق المرءُ منقسمٌ نصفان، لكنتِ متممتي، ونقيض نقيضي،قبل الأبد، كنا ذاتاً وكيان… لو باحَ القدرُ لي بذاك السلوانلكُنتُ رَكَعْتُ خشوعاً تامَ الحمدِأعلمُ أنني أعرفكِ قبلَ الآن، أن القلب في بعدك…

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  • Love Letter I
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    Love Letter I

    So, I shall love you,Hence, in the wildflowers,Each of the passing hours,rows back to where you lie,in every sea & sky..Oh, those loves we forgo,if we bethink we know,which Loves are destined to grow,& which are doomed to die…Yet I shall love you nigh,until ages devour,the life of every flower,& in the infinite lifetimeswithin the…

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