Take one step beyond yourself

Take one step beyond yourself

Take one step beyond yourself
The whole path lasts no longer than a step

Beg alms from yourself, don't go wandering
Outside yourself, the Way cannot be found

If it's love you're after, nought yourself
Only the lover minus self knows love

In the hope of His union suffer
The weight of separation all your life

A rose without thorns cannot be found
There is no gathering of roses without shedding blood

Speak not of infidelity or faith,
No, be sacrificed in the way of love
For in His presence there is no room, no time
For dogma,infidelity or faith

Seeker, no one attains to love
Without rising above yesterday and tomorrow

The day is today, No lover
Knows care for the future

                             ----------By a Sufi Poet