My Joy

My joy –
My Hunger –
My Shelter –
My Friend –
My Food for the journey –
My journey’s End –
You are my breath,
My hope,
My Companion,
My Craving,
My abundant wealth,
Without you –my life, my love –
I would never have wandered across these endless countries ….
I look everywhere for your love –
Then I am suddenly filled with it.
O captain of my Heart,
Radiant Eye of Yearning in my breast,
I will never be free from You
As  long as I live.
Be satisfied with me, Love,
And I am satisfied.

- Rabia Al-Adawiyya