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Sunday, 20 July 2025

Empty Me of Everything But Your Love - Abdullah Ansari

Lord, send me staggering with the wine
Of Your love!
Ring my feet
With the chains of Your slavery!
Empty me of everything but Your love
And in it destroy and resurrect me!
Any hunger You awaken
Can only end in Feast!

Abdullah Ansari [Abu Ismaïl Abdullah al-Harawi al-Ansari] (1006 - 1089) Afghanistan
Translated by Andrew Harvey
Source: Poetry Chaikhana

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