Peter Lucas Hulen

Kabir

Kabir
Are you looking for me? I am in the next seat.
My shoulder is against yours.
You will not find me in stupas, not in Indian shrine
     rooms, nor in synagogues, nor in cathedrals:
not in masses, nor kirtans, not in legs winding
     around your own neck, nor in eating notning but
     vegetables.
When you really look for me, you will see me
     instantly—
you will find me in the tiniest house of time.
Kabir says: Student, tell me, what is God?
He is the breath inside the breath.



Robert Bly, Tr., Kabir: Ecstatic Poems (Boston: Beacon Press, 2007)