The Destination of Pride

: I asked far too much of you— because it was you I found within my depths, where your intimate feelings dwell.
Why should I not desire, tell me, to feel the undifferentiated touch of your sensibilities?
I love you— but is it still wrong in this world's eyes to seek love in return for love?

Whatever I have lost, I gained from here. That 'you' found by another, even after being lost, has returned within me— as you yourself!
Through my incompleteness I have touched your completeness.
Looking into your eyes I would wonder— has anyone ever entered that mysterious blue garden for a lifetime?
In an instant it dissolved into darkness... the verses of your sorrow.

You are not one who clings to the traces of lost moments— I understand.
Yet from this very moment I merge all my unattainments into your fulfillment.
In this instant you are mine alone, and once again we shall merge into this world.

: How then shall I find you in this terrible resentment?
I shall never again be able to see into another's heart in this life.
It was you I wanted to touch again and again— yet you will dissolve into familiar destinations.
I know I shall not find you by calling out.
Tell me, if we were meant to be separate, why did we gather around this straw?

: I filled you— only to make the expanse of emptiness visible.
Because I had accepted separation, I could tell you the last of my wounds.
This heart was desperate to know your inner being— do you know that?

: Then forget your past, do not seek to know your future.
You only wanted to hold me in your existence— you never understood that for this, one must know how to love.

: How many possessed that power?
Surely what is happening need not be borne— and what had happened was beyond your control.
What is inevitable is destiny.
Within these boundaries lies our position— and beyond these boundaries lies your quest.
That lost address has brought us our present situation.
I am in this moment— only across this moment, yours alone.
The memory of love surviving in our existence, I prepare to merge into fate.
Yet this is the joy of it— whatever path we walked, our destination was the same.

: Through an invisible connection, today your heart too yearns to touch me.
If the essence of our souls endures— then countless times in this world I shall merge only into you.
In this moment of doubt, your presence has transformed my entire being.
When your work is done— do you yourself wish to dissolve?

: Your feelings have illuminated my heart—
this stirring cannot be hidden beneath false veils of illusion.
If destiny can preserve your permanence, then who am I to ignore this enchantment?
Surely we shall merge into the vast destination of the future.