To the eye of the true Witness, no more than One is to be seen – but since this One Face shows Itself in two mirrors, each mirror will display a diff… - Fakhr-al-Din Iraqi

Before this there was one heart
but a thousand thoughts
Now all is reduced to "There is no God but God."

Beloved, I sought you
here and there, asked for news of you from all I met; then saw you through myself and found we were identical. Now I blush to think I ever searched for signs of you.

Love the phoenix cannot be trapped
nor in heaven or earth can it be named;

no one has yet discovered its address:
its desert holds not a single footprint.

The world drains the last drops from its cup
though itself it is not outside the glass;

dawn and dusk I caress its face, its tresses,
though where it is no day or night exists.

Morning-breeze, if you pass its lane
I have no message for it but this:

My repose, who are my very life, without you
I can take no single breath at ease.