how hope for forgiveness?

In the land of love 

there's no reason 

for comfort. 

There, everything is loss—

not increase.

But without pain and grief,

how could the cure

ever arrive?

Without error,

how hope 

for forgiveness?

 

[Abū Saʿīd Abū'l-Khayr {967-1049} 'Celebrate this Loss', from Love’s Alchemy: Poems from the Sufi tradition