If Love Should Glance

If Love should glance and share its secret lore,

Why should he not feel blessed forevermore?

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It frees the soul from every worldly care—

Your madness opens heaven’s hidden door.

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The world calls sense insanity today,

And deems pure madness reason’s crown once more.

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Your cruelty delights me, for I see—

Through pain, I reach distinction's inner core.

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Who seeks relief from all the world’s despair

Should learn to make love’s sorrow something more.

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Each lover hopes your gaze will fall his way—

God grant your eyes a grace unknown before.

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Though I am least deserving of your light,

Your joy may lift me high—and I adore.

summary

This ghazal (Love Poem) is a tender celebration of love’s silent magic—the kind that begins with just one meaningful glance. It tells the story of a lover who feels blessed beyond words simply to be noticed by their beloved. The pain of love isn’t a burden here—it’s a sweet secret that sets the heart free from the worries of the world. Even madness, when born from love, becomes wisdom. The beloved’s indifference only deepens the lover’s devotion, because true love finds beauty even in sorrow. Above all, this is a lover’s prayer: to be touched, even briefly, by the grace of their beloved’s gaze—and to be transformed forever by its light.