​Your Triumphant Song

On that final day
When my casket moves along
Do not think my soul
will stay in this world for long

Do not weep for me crying, 
  “What misfortune, what a loss”
For that is a misfortune 
    You should avoid at all cost

When you see my lifeless body go by
Do not cry out, “gone, gone”
This is my moment of union
The embrace of Love I come upon

As I am lowered into the ground
Do not say, farewell to my life
For the grave is but a veil
That covers the splendor of paradise 

What appears to you as the ground
     Is for me the highest goal 
What appears to you as a lonely grave
    Is an endless garden of my soul

(Death is kind the final path) will be soon
What harm ever came to the setting Sun or Moon?

Every bucket brings up water for all
And now I rise, there was never a fall
Every lamp brings hope to a dreary night
Now I shine forth with endless delight

Do not look for your life over there
Find it in your own heart, right here
Sing to me with the whispers of dawn
And I will rise
  To hear your triumphant song

See the fall but know the rise will be soon
What harm ever came to the setting Sun or Moon?

Do not look for your life over there
Find it in your own heart, right here
Sing to me with the whispers of dawn
And I will rise
  To hear your triumphant song

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[Lyrics by Jonathan Star]

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Lyrics are based on the poem, "Your Triumphant Song," from Rumi: In the Arms of the Beloved by Jonathan Star