Trading my *****'s cloth
for the raiment of a pilgrim
was the greatest of gifts
from you.
After wandering for years
living on sorrow
and regret
becoming empty as the desert
it was enough to have met you.
I am afraid that we will never be
that which I so fervently wished
no matter how deep my love
may envelope me.
I won't pretend that this
brings me any sort of joy
but if it's the only way
for me to progress
I accept.
I know where I am going now,
have a destination at last
that may or may not
involve companionship with you.
Some day though,
I will reach the place
out beyond Rumi's field
and in that oasis
I will build my Garden.
A pilgrim (from the Latin peregrinus) is a traveler (literally one who has come from afar) who is on a journey to a holy place. Typically, this is a physical journeying (often on foot) to some place of special significance to the adherent of a particular religious belief system. In the spiritual literature of Christianity, the concept of pilgrim and pilgrimage may refer to the experience of life in the world (considered as a period of exile) or to the inner path of the spiritual aspirant from a state of wretchedness to a state of beatitude. - Wikipedia
