The Master has said most of the world will perish;
Don’t let this bamboozle you, but his name cherish.
Earth, millions and millions of times passes away
Into nothing; But the mind survives gross decay.
And takes birth again and again a billion time
until mind and soul become one and the same.
When the mind drowns in the ocean of divine soul,
mind is destroyed at last, and God becomes the goal.
Only love survives times great shifts with elegance:
Stone dreams of animal longing for human embrace.
When you breathe your last, remember the beloved;
All other desire is but tepid and insipid.
Darvish says the world is a place to forge longing
for the Master’s name with poetry and singing.
