When The Rose is Gone

Maitresse Maia Steeleater · When The Rose is Gone

Self explanatory--we have all experienced the loss of one we care deeply for in some manner or fashion. When that happens, what is left?? Such a painful, yet all too real, fact of life.~~Maia

WHEN THE ROSE IS GONE

When the rose is gone and the garden faded
you will no longer hear the nightingale's song.
The Beloved is all; the lover just a veil.
The Beloved is living; the lover a dead thing.
If love withholds its strengthening care,
the lover is left like a bird without care,
the lover is left like a bird without wings.
How will I be awake and aware
if the light of the Beloved is absent?
Love wills that this Word be brought forth

From: Mathnawi I, 23-31 ~ The Teachings of Rumi

By: E.H.Winfield

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