| You are my Love, you are my Beloved; You are my heart, my soul, and the faith of mine.
 
 By your breath I am alive;
 What is one life? – you are a hundred lives of mine.
 
 Without you, bread cannot feed a man;
 You are the water and the bread of mine.
 
 By your touch, poison becomes medicine;
 You are the cure and the sweet nectar of mine.
 
 You are the garden, the grass, and the heavens;
 You are the cypress, and the laughing jasmine of mine.
 
 I have entered that supreme silence.
 Please, you go on . . .
 My mouth may open, words may come out,
 But you are every sweet song of mine....!
 
 ~ Rumi
 -- Ode 3365
 Version by Jonathan Star
 "A Garden Beyond Paradise: The Mystical Poetry of Rumi"
 Bantam Books, 1992
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