<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=460080" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>In the spirit of Rumi - 47 - A Confession of Love Withheld</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Now with surprise and sadness, I have realised–<br>I do not love you as much as I thought…</div><div style="margin:10px 0">When you are beside me<br>in the bed when I awake<br>I whisper with my waking breath<br>to your open or your sleeping eyes, <br>‘I love you’…and in that, <br>I find myself…</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But when you are far away<br>my first involuntary waking thought<br>is not of you, or love, or God<br>Who guided me through the night, <br>Who taught me to enjoy<br>His great invention, sleep…<br>but of myself…<br>myself and world as two<br>and I am lost to myself…</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and know, I have not yet<br>surrendered all my mind and will<br>to God…</div><div style="margin:10px 0">O My Beloved<br>how can I love you fully, as God loves, when<br>I do not yet see God<br>in every waking moment<br>in myself?</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Michael+Shepherd">Michael Shepherd</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=460080" data-title="In the spirit of Rumi - 47 - A Confession of Love Withheld de Michael Shepherd" data-description="Now with surprise and sadness, I have realised– I do not love you as much as I thought… When you are beside me in the bed when I awake I whisper with my waking breath to your open or your sleeping eyes, ‘I love you’…and in that, I fin..."></div> </div> </div>

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