Rabia the Mystic

[from Rabia the Mystic as translated by Aliki Barnstone and Willis Barnstone in Voices of Light: Spiritual and Visionary Poems by Women Around the World from Ancient Sumeria to Now, edited by Aliki Barnstone, 1999]

You are the companion of my heart

You are the companion of my heart
Though my body I offer to those who desire it.

My body is friendly to guests

But you the companion of my heart
Are the guest of my soul.

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