True Love at Every Moment Praises God

Composed in 2009 while Szymko was a Fellow at the Instituto Sacatar Artist Residency in Itaparica Bahia, Brazil.

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True Love at Every Moment Praises God

Mechtild de Magdeburg (c.1210-c.1285)

True love in every moment praises God.
Longing love brings a sorrow sweet to the pure.
Seeking love belongs to itself alone.
Understanding love gives itself equally to all.
Enlightened love is mingled with the sadness of the world.
But selfless love bears an effortless fruit,
Working so quietly even the body cannot say how it comes and goes.