My Eternal Rose Comments

This lyric poem explores the theme of platonic love for the poet persona's sweetheart with whom he's had a close relationship in his past life and happened to meet each other again in the present life. There's an implied dramatic conflict between the lady and the persona who is so desirous to possess her, knowing fully well that they can only be together in the mental and spiritual plane as this is dictated by their karma in the present life.

Of all the flowers in my Lord's garden
you came to me, O little tender bud,
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