A Story Of Great Love Poem by Zahra Zuhair

There was no existence before You -
Only darkness.
Incomparable, unfathomable,
enveloping, blinding,
selfish, hollow darkness.
Looking back, I see nothing there
but distress and despair.
Until amidst the sorrow,
I began to search, hoping to borrow
from You - a little, just a little -
but You delivered in immenseness.
An unmatchable delivery,
so overwhelming, it astonished me,
clothing me in a flame so rare,
a light too bright for the plain eye to bear
and as I neared You
by a palm,
You came to me by an arm,
reducing the distance in between,
a distance there should never have been.
Oh! How I wished I had found You sooner;
how I wished I had You earlier.
But comfort I find in the faith
that You will forever be
as You have been before,
and You will never abandon me.
So, I pray
to You,

The Maker of my fate,
The Creator of my soul.