GOING TO MECCA

O pilgrim who visit the Holy Land

I’ll show you heaven in a grain of sand

Why traverse deserts, why confront the storm

If within you resides the formless form

Of the Beloved? If he’s in your heart

Your pilgrimage has ended where you start.

So, from that garden did you bring a rose?

You saw the house of God, now just suppose

Arriving at a house unoccupied

Will leave the pilgrims’ thirst unsatisfied

Remember Hajji wherever you roam

His love will have to make your heart his home.