I Have Fallen Into Unconsciousness

I have got out of my own control, I have fallen into unconsciousness; in my utter unconsciousness how joyful I am with myself! The darling sewed up my eyes so that I might not see other than him, so that suddenly I opened my eyes on his face. My soul fought with me saying, “Do not pain me”; I said, “Take your divorce.” She said, “Grant it”; I granted it. When my mother saw on my cheek the brand of your love she cut my umbilical cord on that, the moment I was born. If I travel to heaven and read the Tablet of the Unseen, O you who are my soul’s salvation, without you how I am ruined! When you cast aside the veil the dead become alive; the light of your face reminded me of the Covenant of Alast. When I became lost, O soul, through love of the king of the peris, hidden from self and creatures, I am as if peri-born myself. I said to the Tabriz of Shams-e Din, “O body, what are you?” Body said, “Earth”; Soul said, “I am distraught like the wind.”