The Love never fails

From closeness with you,
My face was covered with purulent sores –
It is true…
And those who saw me turned their faces away.
But what is this compared to the wounds
You inflicted upon Love?

Love is no feeling,
Much less one of the five senses…
My whole being was so stricken,
As though it had been deprived of life.
An endless cold filled my heart,
And only the merciful Lord was near.

Perhaps Adam died like this,
Having unlawfully tasted of the Tree,
And was driven out of Paradise,
Having dissolved poison within himself instead of Light.

A day passed like a thousand years,
And a thousand years passed like a day.

Tormented, holy –
Love remains.
Love never fails,
And though It still shines just the same –
It will not touch to you again...
It never will touch you again.
This is engraved in Heaven,
Divided by a line unknown to you,
Crowned in Eternity.
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