Eternity

    All through eternity

    Beauty unveils His exquisite form
    
    in the solitude of nothingness;
    
    He holds a mirror to His Face
    
    and beholds His own beauty.
    
    he is the knower and the known,
    
    the seer and the seen;
    
    No eye but His own
    
    has ever looked upon this Universe.
    
    His every quality finds an expression:
    
    Eternity becomes the verdant field of Time and Space;
    
    Love, the life-giving garden of this world.
    
    Every branch and leaf and fruit
    
    Reveals an aspect of His perfection-
    
    They cypress give hint of His majesty,
    
    The rose gives tidings of His beauty.
    
    Whenever Beauty looks,
    
    Love is also there;
    
    Whenever beauty shows a rosy cheek
    
    Love lights Her fire from that flame.
    
    When beauty dwells in the dark folds of night
    
    Love comes and finds a heart
    
    entangled in tresses.
    
    Beauty and Love are as body and soul.
    
    Beauty is the mine, Love is the diamond.
    
    They have together
    
    since the beginning of time-
    
    Side by side, step by step.
    
    I swear, since seeing Your face,
    
    the whole world is fraud and fantasy
    
    The garden is bewildered as to what is leaf
    
    or blossom. The distracted birds
    
    can’t distinguish the birdseed from the snare.
    
    A house of love with no limits,
    
    a presence more beautiful than venus or the moon,
    
    a beauty whose image fills the mirror of the heart.