Having crossed the river,
where will you go, O friend?

There's no road to tread,
No traveler ahead,
Neither a beginning, nor an end.

There's no water, no boat, no boatman, no cord;
No earth is there, no sky, no time, no bank, no ford.

You have forgotten the Self within,
Your search in the void will be in vain;
In a moment the life will ebb
And in this body you won't remain.

Be ever conscious of this, O friend,
You've to immerse within your Self;
Kabir says, salvation you won't then need,
For what you are, you would be indeed.
...

Nature's first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf's a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf,
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day
Nothing gold can stay.
...

Your Sparkling Beauty
Your sweet eyes shower love from eyes to eyes
Your beauty shimmers in your passionate passion
How can I resist the pleasure of your lovely cries
Let me appreciate your beautiful style and fashion
Your beauty reinvigorates my spirits to appreciate
You are like a full garden of fragrant sweet flowers
Let me assoiciate in love and let me but narrate
What a wonderful stem and a wha a beautiful bowers
Let me have a close look at your sweet shining figure

...

XIV

If thou must love me, let it be for nought
Except for love's sake only. Do not say
'I love her for her smile—her look—her way
Of speaking gently,—for a trick of thought
That falls in well with mine, and certes brought
A sense of pleasant ease on such a day'—
For these things in themselves, Beloved, may
Be changed, or change for thee,—and love, so wrought,
May be unwrought so. Neither love me for
Thine own dear pity's wiping my cheeks dry,—
A creature might forget to weep, who bore
Thy comfort long, and lose thy love thereby!
But love me for love's sake, that evermore
Thou mayst love on, through love's eternity.
...

Broad sun-stoned beaches.

White heat.
A green river.

A bridge,
scorched yellow palms

from the summer-sleeping house
drowsing through August.

...

I may not be your first choice
As I answer with a truthful voice,
But, knowing me you will rejoice
Because I am a great choice.
I may not be rich and/ or taxable,
But, indeed I am very valuable.

I don't pretend to be someone that I am not
I don't pretend that I am someone you sought,
Knowing me you see what you got

...

I Found you and I lost you,
All on a gleaming day.
The day was filled with sunshine,
And the land was full of May.

A golden bird was singing
Its melody divine,
I found you and I loved you,
And all the world was mine.

I found you and I lost you,
All on a golden day,
But when I dream of you, dear,
It is always brimming May.
...

I am a little purple flower
My petals so extremely small
I 've stood in the grass for many an hour
Enjoying a breeze most of all

But, oh, what happened to my peers!
Just yesterday, it moved me to tears
While the children of John were playing their game
My peers were trampled to death, what a shame


...

'Dead man walking! '
Announces the guard
As the condemned man
Is led to his execution
In the prison's gas chamber

In a week they'll be
Saying that about me. I'm
Scheduled to die for
A crime I did not do.

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