Kabbalah

Blessing of the Sun, Yoram Raanan

These mysteries —
oh, how they are
but of a friendship truly begun
and gratefully the connecting signs! —
that help us to see
unfolded by stages the Beloved and the Lover
(in all around us as in the one within)
revealed to each other,
and the trailing steps of the first
to travel freely to the depths,
who now becomes the last,
who never must begin.

Let them be to me,
timeless, your embraces
as these few words of mine to you
would clasp
you long and warmly
and firmer than the flesh,
so spirits unhindered by haves and naughts
may mesh,
and hearts in heavy harmony
may grasp
the best and brightest
in each other’s faces.
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