Aaron Weiss

"Open wide my door, my Lord, to whatever makes me love You more."

"The harder the rain, the lower the flowers in the garden bend: I'd rather never talk again Than to continue to pretend that this never ends."

"The needle's worn the grooves too deep!"

"I wrote a little song for you With a melody I'd borrowed put to words that didn't rhyme To repeat what you already knew; As the stones thrown at your window tapped in syncopation, You kept a distance out of fear you'd break, But what good's a single windchime, hanging quiet all alone?"

"The music our collisions make!"

"Given my tendency to err so on the sentimental side, I'll spare you my goodbyes: The truth belongs to God, The mistakes were mine."

"A speckled bird, humbly inspired, Ran across the road when it could have flown, And it made me smile."

"Now you say you wanna be set free? And wanna set me free? Well I'm told that can only come from A union with the One who never dies."

"In darkness a light shines on you and on me."

"What in her do I require? The face of gratified desire."

"No more spider, No more leaf, No more me, No more belief."

"The trap I set for you seems to have caught my leg instead!"

"I do not exist, only You exist."

"You wear a thin disguise, O, Light within my Brother's eyes!"

"The Angel of Death came to David's room, He said, "Friend, it's time to go.""

"But good Angel, don't I get a warning sign Before it's my time to go?"

"But I slew Goliath with the sling and stone, It's not my time to go."

"The Donkey whispered in His ear: "Child, in thirty-some-odd years, You'll ride someone that looks like me (untriumphantly).""

"And the snake who'd held the world, a stick, a carrot and string Was crushed beneath the foot of Your not wanting anything."

"You've got it all turned upside-down. Does the rain that's sent each spring anew to fall on her not fall on you? You project on her your inward scenes, she's a blank, external movie screen. But the One who looks out from your eyes looks through hers and through mine."

"So may we old-fashionably suggest the Unmarried not undress?"

"You think you're you, but you don't know who you are, you're not you... you're Everyone Else."

"As the Moon rose and the hour grew late, The day help on a Coconut estate raked up the dry leaves that fell dead from the trees, Which they burned in a pile by the lake. The Beetle King summoned his men, and from the top of the Rhododendron stem: "Calling all volunteers who can carry back here, the Great Mystery's been lit once again.""

"In everywhere we look, In everyone we meet, In every blade of grass, Allah, Allah, Allah, in everyone we meet."

"What effect is without a cause?"

"Let’s return now to the dust as the dust we are"

"I’m clearly not as handsome or caring as what you seem to want, but I’d gladly walk you home,‘cause those streets can be dangerous"

"Let's give up 'sacrifice' next Lent" Eh, that joke's long since been spent!""

"We've both been untrue but i'm still counting on you like an invisible rosary"

"I often wonder if I've already died, Or if the 'I' is an unintelligible lie"

"Megalomania’s only mania if you’re wrong"

"Elephant refused to swear the oath, Said, "I don't know anything about truth, but I know falsehood when I see it, and it looks like this whole world you've made""

"Lord, for sixty-so years I've surrendered my love, to emblems of kindness, and not the kindness they were emblems of, Trammels and rings, with the strength of old strings, and some hobble skirt spring, by the old problem caught, Children, sometimes I think all our thoughts are just things, and then sometimes think things are just thoughts" and the rabble rang."

"Down by the tracks watching trains go by To remind me: there are places that aren't here."

"Grape on the vine... why not be crushed to make wine?"

"The Son of the widow You raised from the dead... Where did His soul go When He died again?"

"Caught me making eyes at the other boatman's wives, And heard me laughing louder at the jokes told by their daughters, I'd set my course for land, but you well understand It takes a steady hand to navigate adulterous waters."

"I drank a thimble full of fire and I'm not ever coming back."

"I do not exist, we faithfully insist, While watching sink the heavy ship of everything we knew. If ever You come near I'll hold up high a mirror Lord, I could never show you anything as beautiful as You."

"Isa ruhu-lah 'alaihis-salat was-salam!"

"When the dryness and the rain finally drink from one another The gentle cup of mutually surrendered tears!"

"A fish swims through the sea While the sea is in a certain sense, Contained within the fish! Oh, what am I to think Of what the writing of a thousand lifetimes Could not explain If all the forest trees were pens And all the oceans - ink?"

"...as I go showing off again Self-impressed by how well I can put myself down! And there I go again To the next further removed level Of that same exact feigned humility!"

"Shadow am I! Like a suspicion that's never confirmed But it's never denied! Wolf am I..."

"She put on happiness like a loose dress over pain I'll never know."

"You made this world to look so nice I wonder what the next one's like?"

"What new mystery is this?"

"The invisible is seen among the shadows and the mist: Before my doubting eyes, The infinite appears this time, The unquestionable is questioned But makes no reply!"

"There, strapped like a watch on my wrist That's finished with gold but can't tell time, Was all of what little pleasure exists Seductively sold and uselessly mine."

"And all of what little joy in the world Seemed suddenly simple and endlessly mine."