The Single Essence Poem by Mohammad Younus

I can't explain how, but I know
I meet you;
Every where, every hour, in every form;
Don't ask me how, there is no point;
I see you throwing smiles to me and winking;
I can't help myself, so I walk to you;
I see you behind every form;
I see you in all colours and patterns;
I see the essence of all things in the universe is one;
I perceive with my inner eye the single essence;
I exclaim with exuberance and
I speak out:
'It is you who I have been looking for all my life;
It is you who has been looking for me...
...since my first birth on the earth;
You are the witness, and you are the witnessed;
I don't say like that mystic of Delhi:
'I have become you, and you have become me
I have become the body, and you the soul
So from now on, nobody can say
That I am someone, and you are someone else';
It is hard for me to believe in duality;
It is even harder for me to think of separation or unity.

MyKoul