The Heat Of Midnight Tears Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AB CDEFGH IJ K L| Listen my friend this road is the heart opening | A |
| Kissing his feet resistance broken tears all night | B |
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| If we could reach the Lord through immersion in water | C |
| I would have asked to be born a fish in this life | D |
| If we could reach Him through nothing but berries and wild nuts | E |
| Then surely the saints would have been monkeys when they came from the womb | F |
| If we could reach him by munching lettuce and dry leaves | G |
| Then the goats would surely go to the Holy One before us | H |
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| If the worship of stone statues could bring us all the way | I |
| I would have adored a granite mountain years ago | J |
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| Mirabai says The heat of midnight tears will bring you to God | K |
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| Translated by Robert Bly | L |
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