I have come so that...by RUMI

I have come so that,

Tugging your ear,

I may draw you to me,
unheart and unself you,

plant you in my heart and soul.

Rosebush,

I have come a sweet springtide unto you,

to seize you very gently in my embrace and squeeze you.

I have come to adorn you in this worldly abode,

to convey you above the skies like lovers' prayers.

I have come because you stole a kiss from an idol fair;

give it  back with a glad heart, master,

for I will seize you back.

What is a mere rose?

You are the All,

you are the speaker of  the command "Say" .

If no one else knows you, since you are I, I know you.

You are my soul and spirit,

you are my Fatiha-chanter ,

become altogether the Fatiha,

so that I may chant you in my heart.

You are my quarry and game,

though you have sprung from the snare;

return to the snare, and if you will not, I will drive you.

The lion said to me, "You are a wonderous deer; be gone!

Why do you run in my wake so swiftly?

I will tear you to pieces."

Accept my blow, and advance like a hero's shield; 
give your ear to naught but the bowstring,

that I may bend you like a bow.

So many thousand stages there are from earth's bounds to man;

I have brought you from city to city,

I will not leave you by the roadside.

Say nothing, froth not, do not raise the lid of the cauldron; 
simmer well, and be patient, for I am cooking you. 

No, for you are a lion's whelp hidden in a deer's body:

I will  cause you suddenly to transcend the deer's veil.

You are my ball, and you run in the curved mallet of my decree;

though I am making you to run, I am still running in your track.

~ Rumi

"Mystical Poems of Rumi 1", A.J. Arberry
The University of Chicago Press, 1968