Now No Trace Remains

I thought that in this whole world

no beloved for me remained.

Then I left myself.

Now no stranger in the world remains.

I used to see in every object a thorn

but never a rose --

the universe became a rose garden.

Not a single thorn remains.

Day and night my heart

was moaning "Ahhh!"

I don't know how it happened --

now no "Ahhh" remains.

Duality went, Unity came.

I met with the Friend in private;

The multitude left, the One came.

Only the One remains.

Religion, piety, custom, reputation --

these used to matter greatly to me.

O Niyazi -- what has happened to you?

No trace of religion now remains.

... Niyazi Misri