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.

First, when I was apart from you,
this world did not exist, nor any other.

Second, whatever I was looking for
was always you.

I have looked for you. Now you have come to me. And I thank you.

I want you. I know you tried to find.

I searched for God and found only myself. I searched for myself and found only God.

I am everybody and every time,
I always call myself by your name.

I was looking for myself and asking everyone except myself questions which I, and only I, could answer.

All my life I had been looking for something, and everywhere I turned someone tried to tell me what it was.

Doing as others told me, I was Blind.

Coming when others called me, I was Lost.

Then I left everyone, myself as well.

Then I found Everyone, Myself as well.

I searched for such a long time. At the begin-ning, an image, an ebony-warrior coming fromAzania. Then it was like a three-way mirror re-flecting my past, present and future. I searchedfor you everywhere: in my books, at the cine-ma, within my weaknesses, under the finefolds of my smile

All my life I had been looking for something, and everywhere I turned someone tried to tell me what it was. I accepted their answers too, though they were often in contradiction and even self-contradictory. I was naïve. I was looking for myself and asking everyone except myself questions which I, and only I, could answer. It took me a long time and much painful boomeranging of my expectations to achieve a realization everyone else appears to have been born with: That I am nobody but myself.

The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was.

I went in search of myself.

I thought I know you,
but it was only me.
The you that you truly are
is not the you I see.
My mind has formed your image
but you have already travelled on
I want to see only you
but I see you through me