Love

I am one with all things—

in beauty

in ugliness

for whatsoever is—

there I am

Not only in virtue

but in sin too I am a partner

and not only heaven

but hell too is mine.

Buddha, Jesus, Lao Tzu—

it is easy to be their heir,

but Ghengis, Taimur, and Hitler?

They are also within me!

No, not half—

I am the whole of mankind!

Whatsoever is man's is mine—

flowers and thorns

darkness as well as light

and if nectar is mine

whose is poison?

Nectar and poison—

both are mine

Whoever experiences this I call religious

for only the anguish of such experience can revolutionize life on earth