When I was the stream,
when I was the forest,
when I was the field, the hoof, the foot, the fin, the wing
when I was the sky itself

No one ever asked me of my purpose 
no one ever wondered what I might need
for there was nothing
I could not love.

Then I left all, that we once were, 
and the agony began, the fear, the questions
and i wept, i wept,
tears, i had never known before.

So I returned to the river,
I returned to the mountains. 
And I asked for them to marry me again
I begged the hand,
all of living matter,
which I met.

They welcomed me with arms of song,
and all the riches of the earth,
never did she say where have you been?

For then I knew I always was at home here,
In all faces of creation I saw her and me,
And there was nothing,
I could not love,
In her arms.

Meister Eckhart, translated by Daniel Ladinsky, adapted by Karianne Burns


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