Yet still I keep wondering

[Guest guest]

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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

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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