Hamsa

Fill your mind with moonlight,
pearl it in a breath.
Become the place where restless lovers
touch and find quietness,
this deer park in the heart.
Twin flames mingle, fiery and cool,
serpents entwined on a blossoming tree.
Inhalation marries sighing.
Seven emeralds drop into golden stillness,
leaving not a ripple.
This passion the Sun feels toward the Moon,
the pulse of your blood, full and empty,
a swan alighting to kiss a swan
on mirror water.
Call it prayer.
Which one is the animal soul,
and which the Lord of the Garden?
Bear love with pangs of longing, 
and love will give birth to you.


"Hamsa" means swan in Sanskrit, yet it is also the Upanishadic
mantra that is the sound of the breath, "Ham" meaning "I am,"
and "Sa" meaning "He," or God. Painting of Guru Dev and the
Hamsa Swan by Frank W. Lotz.