Following the Path

(A Restatement from David Pendlebury’s Garden)

The non-existent have come to serve

at the door of true existence,

nor is it just today that this is so

but since time began

dervishes have come

bereft of wealth and power,

swarming like ants at the door of love.

...No one knows how far it is

from nothingness to God,

but the self will wander right and left

day and night

for years and years

turning around itself like an ox in the mill;

break free from yourself,

free yourself from yourself

and in little time the wandering will cease

and the door will open to you.