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THE NATURE OF LOVE
(For Farduus & Awaale)
By
M. S. Togane
November 20, 2009

Context: A young couple invited me to their wedding in San Diego paying all my expenses. All they wanted, they insisted, was the angel of my presence. So I flew from the East to the West, from Montreal to San Diego. The following was my surprise gift to the bride and the bridegroom: a Shakespearean sonnet.)

And the LORD God said,
It is not good that the man should be alone;
I will make him Eve, an help meet for him.
..............Genesis 2:18

Therefore shall a man leave his father
and his mother,
and shall cleave unto his wife:
and they shall be one flesh.
..............Genesis 2 :24

If two lie together,
then they have heat:
but how can one be warm alone?
...........Ecclesiastes 4:11


What is it men in women do require?
The lineaments of Gratified Desire.
What is it women do in men require?
The lineaments of Gratified Desire.
...................William Blake

If anything is sacred,
the human body is sacred.
.............Walt Whitman

We have known and believed that God loves us.
God is love.
Those who live in God's love live in God, and God lives in them.
.......1 John 4:16

Allah loves to create in noble pairs:
We send down rain from the sky,
and produce on the earth
every kind of noble creature, in pairs.
........ Surah Luqman: 10


Love solves all problems, opens all closed doors.
..........Sheikh Muzaffer

. . . woman the mirror in which man contemplates God.
It is for this reason that Muhammad loved women,
seeing in them the most perfect means to contemplate God.
..............Ibn Arabi

. . . man comes closest to God in the embrace of a woman.
..............Ibn Arabi


Three things of this world I cherish:
women, perfume and prayer being the comfort of my eye.
.............Prophet Muhammad

Your women are your fields,
so go into your fields
and plough which ever way you like.
......................The Qur’an

God is gentle and loves gentleness.
...........Prophet Muhammad


Lord we sure delight you as we doe-ray-me diddling doodling on our noble dancing pairs

Ripe ready raring to mix it up in the heat of our mock battle royal
Stopping only to nibble to nosh our altogether pretty plumpy potable pears
Never doubting the certitude of how loyal
We will always be to each other
In our Faith Venture in each other that always leads to you
Refusing to be beguiled to be distracted to be deceived by another
Always steadfast on the path that always leads our one ram to our one ewe
Out of sight! As we go on tight right right-on cleaving exploring exploding
In the sacred fire of our each flash of our one flesh
Rowing together to our one divine destination roaring
With our one Spirit soaring in seizures of all of our one relish
Gone gaga in glossolalia coming together with joy unspeakable full of glory
Revealed renewed replete repeated holy holy with this our one
celestial story.

M. S. Togane
Monteal, Canada

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