I am both silent and fermenting for you like the sea of Aden! ~ Rumi

Now sleeping,
now awake,
my heart is
in constant fervor.

It is a covered saucepan,
placed on fire.

O you!
who have offered us
form a cup a silencing wine;

Each moment
a new tale is shouting
to be told in silence.

In his wrath there are a hundred kindnesses,
in his meanness a hundred generosities;

In his ignorance immeasurable gnosis,
silently speaking like the mind.

The words of those whom you have silenced,
cannot hear but those whom you have made uncounscious;

I am both silent and fermenting
for you
like the sea of Aden!

~ Rumi
Divan 1808:6-9
Translated by Fatemeh Keshavarz,
'Reading Mystical Lyric: The Case of Jalal al-Din Rumi',
University of South Carolina Press, 1998.
Art Rassouli