Poems to Honor the Mystery of Love

I Love Love---Here are Two Poems in Honor of The Mystery of Love

Jewel of My Kingdom

Although I conquer all the earth,
Yet for me there is only one city.
In that city there is for me only one house;
And in that house, one room only;And in that room, a bed.
And one woman sleeps there,
The shining joy and jewel of all my kingdom---Sanskrit Poem

Excerpt from When Love Beckons by Kahlil Gibran

Love - wounds, love heals. Love is cruel, love is kind.
Love is mysterious, love is bold, love is gentle…
If you do not have love or love, you are not living.
Love is everything.
Succumb to love, Experience love, and you will have lived.
Then said Almitra, speak to us of love.
And he raised his head and looked upon the people, and there fell a stillness upon them.
And with a great voice he said:
When love beckons to you follow him,
Though his ways are hard and steep.
And when his wings enfold you yield to him,
Though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you.
And when he speaks to you believe in him,
Though his voice may shatter your dreams as the north wind lays waste the garden.
For even as love crowns you so shall he crucify you.
Even as he is for your growth so is he for your pruning.
Even as he ascends to your height and caresses your tenderest branches that quiver in the sun,
So shall he descend to your roots and shake them in their clinging to the earth.
Like sheaves of corn he gathers you unto himself.
He threshes you to make you naked.
He sifts you to free you from your husks.
He grinds you to whiteness.
He kneads you until you are pliant;
And then he assigns you to his sacred fire, that you may become sacred bread for
God's sacred feast.
All these things shall love do unto you that you may know the secrets of your heart, and in that knowledge become a fragment of Life's heart.

(To read the entire beautiful poem, go to the library and check out The Prophet)

In other words, you have to surrender your little self for the Big Self.
Let love have its way with you---give yourself to it with your entire being just for today and see the difference in how you feel.


With Love, Michelle