heavenly spouse, that blesses all things
how you have loved me, that I am chaste
how you have touched me
that I am now pure
your power whose miracles
worked gratitude and forgiveness in me
Until your abundance became
fortified compassion in all my words
how your appearance in the world
jumps out at me now
in whose embrace I am caught
like a rapture from a divinity
leaning on me with strange music
arriving to my eyes like sparkling gems
in the blossoms of springtime
I see new lives and recognize their holiness
a sign of your holiness, everywhere
sacred in the bright humility
of a saint’s tongue or an angel’s smile
on a path of simple happiness
I have forgotten what I once sought
that was not you, most high
the pursuit of perfection is now
the seduction of Lords and Goddesses
each laughs to dissuade me from believing
that the secret of existence
could be so simple
I who once ran after you
hoping for but one whiff
of your fragrance of treasured bliss
now it is with me every day.
Wuji Seshat 