' Beloved '...

"Beloved, I sought you
here and there,

asked for news of you
from all I met;

then saw you through myself
and found we were identical.

Now I blush to think I ever
searched for signs of you."



-Fakhruddin Iraqi (? - 1289)
from William Chittick / Nasr Seyyed Hossein
_Fakhruddin Iraqi: Divine Flashes (Classics of Western Spirituality)_