Lalla...

I do not know myself,
nor you, my Lord.

I mistook the body
for my identity.

I didn't know

that you are
me, and I you,

yet still I keep wondering
who you and I are.



- Lalla
14th Century North Indian mystic

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From "Naked Song"
Versions by Coleman Barks
Maypop 1992