Friday, August 7, 2020

The great pretender

The great pretender                                                                        

For many years His confidant,
His personal attendant, interpreter;

His servant and His companion.  Now, Eruch,
some declare you were God-realized all along.

Veiled to your own perfection, some say.
Others claim you were the great pretender

having fooled all the world
but for your Master and a few others.

These conjectures, earnestly asserted,
are meant to invoke awe and reverence for you.

I have no way to judge your status. 
But, the man I briefly met –

on Meherazad days
scattered over several pilgrimages,

I admired and revered
not for his mastery, but for his servitude;

for his humanity, not his perfection; 
his sincerity, not his cleverness;

for his ordinariness, his utter lack of pretension –
not his ability to pull off an elaborate pretense.

O child of God, as Eruch would advise -- look beyond
Eruch to the Godman he so artfully served.

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