Awareness is alone...

When you see yourself
and someone else
as one being,


when you know the most joyful day
and the most terrible night
as one moment, then

awareness is alone
with its Lord.


- Lalla
14th Century North Indian mystic

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From "Naked Song"
Versions by Coleman Barks
Maypop, 1992