Gralstänk (efter Gustaf Fröding)

Det nalkas från ett sus nånstans'
ett härligt försonande ljud
En berusande dans, och jag blir som i trans
när gnistorna bränner min hud


Det stänker från en helig gral
som djupast i själarna bor
En hel ocean, livets dryck, en koran
och en suck ifrån världarnas jag


Men säg vad du heter
viskade jaget vi inte kan se
Drycken är guden som leker
och vi är den bäcken som blev


En skön och trasig livsmonad
en glimt av din heliga stad
Den breder sig ut, alla gränser dör ut
och vi andas dig i alla blad


I kvinna som hos varje man
i träden och vid varje sten
En ljusglimt det var, fast flyktig och sval
En kvarstod av ljuset från gral


Men säg vad du heter
viskade jaget vi inte kan se
Drycken är guden som leker
och vi är den bäcken som blev

Glimmering Bezels

I love with a love that loves itself

Your Names are my glowing fluorescence


I breathe of a dust where our nature is formed

A mirror reflecting the Essence


My eye has been gifted with hints of your likeness

The other can only know difference


A flower that sings of the Oneness in Being

An ocean that speaks of your presence


Friendship and nourishment we find in each other

But who’s gonna know any difference?


Tears well up in longing for you

But you are the very pupil of the eye


An offering made with our self and our soul

A hint of the taste and the scent of our goal


The will of a treasure to love and be known

A mercy that gives of existence


I dream of a dream where the “You” and the “I”

are as real and apparent as earth and the sky


But daylight reveals in a glimmer of truth

A oneness behind the illusion


Beloved and lover are soaring above

A vision that’s telling the story of love


The heart is an ocean without any shore

That cures our bewildered confusion


Totality placed in the depths of its ground

(and) we wouldn’t be able to make out a sound


The saints and the masters who show us the way

Can only point to the fusion


Nature inhaling the life of the Spirit

A breath of the Merciful, holiest Limit


A world can be heard in the speech of the birds

Appearance renewed every instant


The letters of David are written apart

A way for the king to revel in art


The love that is turned into serving the slave

(is) a pool that is never exhausted


When anger and pain are one and the same

The patience of Job is keeping me sane


We suffer but never we turn from our grief

And the punishment harbors inherent relief


Being extends to the good and the bad

Reality makes only lovers go mad


We worship ourselves through the god we create

The intellect will limit and then separate


Allow the disclosure of every belief

Adjust to the color of water


You qualify, try to hold on to the air

but being is really much broader


Where every motion’s the motion of love

and Moses could speak with the fire thereof


A scent of the goodness and glimmering eyes

What never began, and never dies


The beauty of women and sweetest perfume

A wine that is worthy of drinking


I love with a love that loves itself

and my island of selfhood is sinking.