Show Me Your Face One Instant, and I'll Never Look Away

Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa

The lover's plea distilled: "show me Your face for even an instant" — a single glimpse would be enough to fix the attention forever, so that it "will not go to any other." This is the intensity of the entranced saints of the previous verse, in the first person. And the quiet declaration underneath: "my life is with the Lord" — the seeker's very existence is bound up with the Beloved, the "Friend of the Saints." One glimpse, and nothing else would ever compete. The love-similes have become a personal cry.