MODERN VERSION OF THE CLASSIC SUFI LOVE POEMRoss Keating Initially the lover complains of being "wounded" by the Beloved, that the wound is not fatal, it has not gone deep enough. What the wound exposes, however, and what causes its unique type of pain is the realisation that it is God who is caught in the lover and it is only the Beloved who can release Him. In other words, the lover finds him or herself caught in the middle of the divine play and from this intolerable predicament arises an intense feeling of helplessness and a yearning to be released:
FRANCIS BRABAZON, Poet of the Silent Word, p. 186
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