Like Margaret in the courtyard

Like Margaret in the courtyard                                                                        
 
One lover at a time allowed at Arti
bowing down in the Tomb, darshan
 
an intimate coupling – Meher Baba privately
inviting each lover:  May I have this dance?
 
And each receptive soul, focused and participatory,
taken up in His arms for a timeless while,
 
a whirling embrace, a precisely accomplished series of steps
(like Margaret in the courtyard of Villa Fiorenza)
 
then turned out beyond His door again
to stumble down the Hill and into the world
 
of separation, thought and evaluation
but left with yet another heartening interlude
 
and memory of the Master’s unparalleled
concern, command, agility and flow.
 
O child of God, darshan is not so much
about petition as it is about participation.