The Taste of Inner Immersion

 
You will never have the time to listen to me,
because you are so very very very busy!
I have endless time to listen to you,
even though I too am busy.


I never come to you with any of my busyness,
never show you my preoccupations.
When I speak with you, it means
nothing around me exists in my mind, or
I feel no need to keep it there.
I make so many urgent things unimportant—
because you are precious to me.


I don't know if you've noticed
that the few times we've spoken,
it's been centered on you—your work, your creations.
I'm not the kind of person who would spend
hours chatting with you about irrelevant, unnecessary things,
wasting your valuable time.


I listen to you at my heart's insistence, with sincerity.
You have no need to listen to me, and I see no reason why you should.
But I have a valid reason to listen to you, and that is—
I love you.


I have not yet learned any miraculous language
that could fully express the feeling of love in this world.
So truly there is nothing for you to hear from me,
nothing to know, and certainly nothing to understand!


You said I would either keep you burning like a lit flame,
or plunge you into emptiness like darkness.
I replied that even if I reached the very edge of emptiness
I would use all my strength to keep you burning bright like light!
You answered immediately that I lack the power to keep you burning.


You are absolutely right! I spoke wrongly, carried away by emotion, forgetting reality.
I had no idea
that one person cannot illuminate another through love alone.


Everything in this world can only be done by the suitable and worthy,
whether it's love or anything else.
And perhaps all the world's arrangements exist just so they can succeed!
For the rest of us... everything is ridiculous, mocking, contemptible!


I am worthless! So it took me some time to understand
that I truly have neither the power nor the ability to accomplish anything.
I only have the strength to love you—an intense mental force!