I know I have blogged about this poem before, but it seemed like a good time to post it again. It’s one of my favorites, and it was read at my wedding.
Looking for Your Face
From the beginning of my life
I have been looking for your face
but today I have seen it.Today I have seen
the charm, the beauty, the unfathomable grace
of the face
that I was looking forToday I have found you
and those who laughed
and scorned me yesterday
are sorry that they were not looking
as I didI am bewildered by the magnificence
of your beauty
and wish to see you
with a hundred eyesMy heart has burned with passion
and has searched forever
for this wondrous beauty
that I now beholdI am ashamed
to call this love human
and afraid of G-d
to call it divineYour fragrant breath
like the morning breeze
has come to the stillness of the garden
You have breathed new life into me
I have become your sunshine
and also your shadowMy soul is screaming in ecstacy
Every fiber of my being
is in love with youYour effulgence
has lit a fire in my heart
and you have made radiant for me
the earth and skyMy arrow of love
has arrived at the target
I am in the house of mercy
and my heart
is a place of prayerby Rumi
Rumi was a Sufi poet who lived from 1207-1273. His “love” poems are really about God, but I see them as celebrating human love as an expression of the divine.