Tested In The Complementary Fires Of Love And Pain. Poem by Genova Maaa my mother

The mystic enters the eternal order.
Moving through periods of alternate joy
and anguish, as his spiritual self wakes up
stretched and is tested
in the complementary fires
of love and pain,
he is inwardly conscious
that he moves towards
a definite objective.

He comes to the realization,
that his objective
is no mere act of knowing,
however intense,
exultant and sublime,
but a condition of being.

It is the fulfillment of that love
which impelled him,
steadily and inexorably,
to his own place.