Thursday, December 25, 2008

God and Beauty

The following poem is based upon a prayer of Rabi' a al-Adawiyya from The Beforelife, a book of poems by Franz Wright:

God, if I speak my love to you in fear of hell, incinerate me
in it;
if I speak my love to you in hope of heaven, close it
in my face.
But if I speak to you simply because you exist, cease
withholding from me your
neverending beauty.

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