O! My Belovèd Is Everywhere

O! My Belovèd Is Everywhere

—after “O Thou Blue Sky”

Where is my belovèd Lord?
Does He wait and watch behind
The veil of sky?
Does He draw the blue curtain
Around Himself to play
Hide and seek with us?

O! My Belovèd is everywhere!
Behind the sky, in front, above, below,
On all sides.

A rent in the blue fabric of sky
Could no more reveal my Belovèd
Than a gash in a vein reveals the heart.

O! My Belovèd is everywhere!—
Playing hide and seek.
Come out, my Belovèd,
Come out of my heart
And play with me openly.