How do you find the poem that begins My life is but a weaving between my Lord and me?

Answer 1

Here it is (see links below). The various findings suggest that somebody isn't telling the truth about authorship. I also found several variants and some attributions to "anonymous" or "author unknown." One has improved the line "I do not choose the colors" to "I let him choose the colors," suggesting that this particular copyist was not pleased with the idea that God is in charge. By the way, to answer your precise question--"How do you find the poem"--here is how I found it. I copied the entire line you provided, "my life is but a weaving between my lord and me," and put it into the Google search box without quotation marks around it. I omitted the quotation marks because Google looks for an exact match. If even one word was wrong (and it was), it wouldn't be found. But the omission of quotes lets Google look for the highest concentration of those words in one place without every word's being exact. I got a hit right away. If that hadn't worked, I would have started searching on smaller units such as "life is but a weaving" or even just "life weaving" (still without quotes) to try to get closer. If you are certain of a phrase, putting it in quotes is the best way to go. If you have any search engine on your computer, you could have found it the same way.