152 THEREFORE REMEMBER ME AND I

152 Therefore remember Me and I

Shall remember You on the sly,

And be thankful to Me and so

Not any ingratitude show.



I have my words of remembering Your name,

Beloved, and celebrating Your great fame.

I come reciting all Your names to whirl

Before the sapphire sky with gates of pearl.

I enter in the dance of universe,

Pronouncing every blessing, every curse,

And rising in a spark of love on high

Until the self and human will shall die.

You too, Belovèd, have names to recite,

Remembrance that lifts You too in the light,

Invisibly in joy You too speak out

In words that sing creation all about.

Your name is my remembrance and my song,

My name is Your reciting my lifelong.



My breath, Beloved, recites Your lovely name

And repeats Huu no matter what the claim

Of veils and visions that conceal from sight

The glories of Your being and Your might.

So I can choose no other thing but You

No matter what my wayward will would do

That is without substance and without shame.

But You, Beloved, at any moment can

Obliterate the memory of a man.

If You remember me, it is because

You choose to love, and not for any laws.

And yet perhaps in that We are yet one

Since there’s no I but You when all is done.

The wind blew on the sand and the tide ran.