Ashes and dust

Ashes and dust                                                                                           

To deny the self is to invest in the concept of self.

To practice non-attachment is to be attached to a practice. 

Lovers should instead fasten themselves,

(as per Meher) like dust to the Beloved’s damaan –

one attachment to burn away all others;

the self reduced to ashes and dust.

Ashes and dust on His skirt, His feet and sandals,

outside His threshold lying quietly

until He briefly enters or departs, 

His lovers then stirred up in His wake,

whirling like dervishes in their insubstantiality.

O lovers, true non-attachment comes

from seizing roughly the hem of His garment

and holding on for dear life.

O child of God, make Meher your world

and He will become your sole attachment.