A ghazal by Alison Marshall
The sun said he had no choice but to live in the bog.
But the winter preserved his beauty in its reflection.

Rukhmini 1 shivered in her longing for his light.
He preferred his portraiture in the world's reflection.

Hero, my son, won't you devour your devoted mother?
She burns with the bliss of your fire's reflection.

I am ablaze with your light and joy, and cannot see!
Drink me down into your cool waters of reflection.

Mira 2 searched for her prince in the city of unknowability.
Sweet one, will you come out to play our game of reflection?

Hold me captive in your daring glances at emotion.
Reveal the honest thief of existential reflection.

Baha'u'llah chose aloneness, and set the sun back in the sky.
Nietzsche sunbathed on his cold mountain top of reflection.

Together, they contemplated the beauty in creation's first rite.
The lingam and the yoni made the love-in of reflection.

Zaynab, 3 what book did you steal that story from?
I found it written at the heart of a mystic's reflection.

A ghazal by Jane
Reichhold.