The Female Idol:

You have breathed the breath 
                              of love in me
and in my heart you have 
enclosed the word Layli.
To remove it would to be extricate
the covenant you have made
something from which i would
not be extricated on pain of death.

To remove it would be to remove
                                           my heart
for i would die without it
and i fear i wish it would be so.

God has punished me
for i have placed an idol in my
                                              soul.
Not an idol of gold or some trinket
of brass nor some crude metal
but an idol of etheric beauty and
                          her name is Layli.

and i fear she will never be parted
                                               from me

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