The Hybrid Nature Of Love Poem by Swami Adi Narayan

The seed of love you sewed lifetimes ago
Has blossomed.

Thy petals extend outwards in all directions,
But, now are pricked by Love's own thorns.

You have hidden from me Love's hybrid nature of pleasure and pain.
You have embedded the seed of pain deep within the seed of Love.

O how you have tricked me!
But it is too late for me to change the nature of my being,

For love has born its fullest expression,
In thine petals of love for Thee.

It is reaching out for you in all directions,
Yet cannot reach the sun of my heart.

The light of my life.
O Love! How you have tricked me!