Among what was preserved from him and what he recited of his own poetry are these verses:

You gave me a cup to drink and made me drunk

So my intoxication is from You, not from the cup

You cast me into the depths of the sea of longing

Into an abyss that burns my very breath

At times its tide flings me away

And at times I crawl upon my head

I am a drowning man, and longing is my slayer

O my sovereignty, return to the head

Regarding his words: 'You gave me a cup to drink and made me drunk,' he is referring to the Eternal Pre-existent who gave him the drink of His Gnosis (Ma'rifa) through the tongue of one of His Saints (Wali). It is as if he placed the 'cup' in the station of the one who introduced him to Monotheism (Tawhid), and made the 'wine' within the cup represent the Gnosis which, once it mingles with the heart of a believer, leaves them thirsting for nothing else.