Friend, Hope For The Guest While You Are Alive Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAABC ADE FGHIJKCLE MN OPQH| Friend hope for the Guest while you are alive | A |
| Jump into experience while you are alive | A |
| Think and think while you are alive | A |
| What you call 'salvation' belongs to the time | B |
| before death | C |
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| If you don't break your ropes while you're alive | A |
| do you think | D |
| ghosts will do it after | E |
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| The idea that the soul will join with the ecstatic | F |
| just because the body is rotten | G |
| that is all fantasy | H |
| What is found now is found then | I |
| If you find nothing now | J |
| you will simply end up with an apartment | K |
| in the City of Death | C |
| If you make love with the divine now in the next life | L |
| you will have the face of satisfied desire | E |
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| So plunge into the truth find out who the Teacher is | M |
| believe in the Great Sound | N |
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| Kabir says this When the Guest is being search for | O |
| it is the intensity of the longing for the Guest | P |
| that does all the work | Q |
| Look at me and you will see a slave of that intensity | H |
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